IMMUNITY FROM SUIT OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS VERSUS INDIVIDUAL RIGHT OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE: AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CASE LAW

El articulo, escrito en ingles debido al caracter internacional de la obra colectiva, abarca el estudio de la jurisprudencia sobre el controvertido tema de la inmunidad de que gozan las organizaciones internacionales frente a los tribunales estadales. Aquì va el sumario en ingles. Summary: 1. The need to take into account the individual´s position when immunity from suit applies. 2. The remission to internal forum of the IOs. 3. The reductive interpretation of the provisions according immunity. 4. The right to access to court as a peremptory rule. 5. The prominence given to Human Rights Treaties: The case of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). 6. The use of domestic legal standards: the review of constitutionality of treaties and the public order. 7. The attempt to establish a nexus between the enjoyment of immunity and the implementation of the duty to set up adequate remedies. 8. The indications coming from the case law of international tribunals: the International Court of Justice and the administrative tribunals. 9. The case law of the European Court of Human Rights. 10. Conclusion