Includes bibliographical references.

Overview of the European applications relating to hindrances / Lucia Bieules Binzaru -- The sanctioning of hindrances to the exercise of the right of individual petition before the European Court of Human Rights : is it effective? / Ramona Toma -- The hindrances relating to the correspondence of detainees with the European Court of Human Rights and their lawyers / Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad -- Preventing and sanctioning hindrances in extradition and expulsion cases / Anne Weber -- What it takes to have a case : the backstage story of Muskhadzhiyeva v. Belgium (illegality of children's immigration detention) / Marie-Benedicte Dembour -- The hindrances to migrants' right to appeal : the French case / Severine Rudloff -- The applicants' perspective : lack of information and lack of legal aid / Radu Chirita, Hanna Machinska, Basia Namyslowska-Gabrysiak and Anne Weber -- The access to applicants and evidence, as well as the transfer of witnesses, applicants and other persons to the ECtHR / Magdalena Forowicz and Vladislav Gribincea -- The administrative, tax, financial and cost hindrances against NGOs and lawyers / Emilie Becue, Alexis Deswaef, Dilyana Giteva, Jeremy McBride, Nuala Mole and Catriona Vine -- The protection and safety of lawyers, witnesses and applicants before the ECtHR / Lucia Bieules Binzaru, Kamala Laghate and Fernando Piernavieja Niembro -- Pilot lawyer project developed by the Council of Europe to make direct access to the European Court of Human Rights easier and more effective for individuals / Hanna Machinska -- The interim measures indicated by the European Court of Human Rights and the right to be represented before this Court / Vladislav Gribincea -- A Bulgarian perspective / Dilyana Giteva -- The Kurdish Human Rights Project perspective / Susie Talbot -- The perspective from the Netherlands Helsinki Committee / Kamala Laghate -- General conclusion / Jeremy McBride.