Jon Fridrik Kjølbro is elected as the vice president of the court in Strasbourg. He called extremely clever and sharp.

The Danish lawyer and judge Jon Fridrik Kjølbro has been elected as the vice president of The European Court of human rights.

He has been elected for a period of three years and shall commence the work on 1. January 2020.

the typing of The European Court of human rights in a press release.

And it is a big and important post for a Danish judge to get, believe Jonas Christoffersen, director of Danish Institute for human Rights.

One of the only vice-president of the european Court of human rights, if you have colleagues trust. So it is an expression of the fact that the other judges of the court regard him as a very skilled judge.

the Title also makes a difference, because internally in the court of justice will be an understanding that when the vice president speaks, you listen more. Therefore, his legal thoughts more clout with the here title, he says.

Jon Fridrik Kjølbro is 52 years old and have faroese ancestry. Since 2014 he has been the judge at The European Court of human rights.

Earlier in his career, he has worked with human rights at the ministry of Justice and been a judge at the Copenhagen city Court and the Eastern high Court. Also at the court of Torshavn, he has settled cases.

He stands behind the book "The European Convention on human rights for practitioners".

a few years ago he mixed in the public debate about Denmark's relationship to the menneskerettighedsdomme.

Kjølbro did not mean that Denmark took advantage of the opportunity to influence the judges of the court of justice.

- If one is silent in the pending cases, so depriving man of the possibility to have an influence, said Jon Fridrik Kjølbro to Politiken.

It is not the first time that a dane will be the vice president of the european Court of human rights. Also Kjølbros predecessor, Peer Lorenzen, held the post.

And it is good for Denmark again to have a vice-president, stresses the Jonas Christoffersen.

- I know him as an extremely competent judge. He is quite exceptionally well informed in the ecthr case-law. He is thorough, sharp, accurate and a good listener.

- He is in all ways a really good representative for the Danish courts, he says.

the Court consists of one judge from each of the 47 countries that have joined The European Convention on human rights.

The European Court of human rights is located in the French city of Strasbourg. It was established in 1959.

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