The Second Advisory Opinion by the Strasbourg Court under Protocol 16: A Contextual Analysis

<jats:p><jats:bold>Advisory Opinion</jats:bold>: Requested by the Armenian Constitutional Court, Request no. P16-2019-001</jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Section of the Court</jats:bold>: Grand Chamber</jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Applicable Convention Rights</jats:bold>: Article 7 <jats:sc>echr</jats:sc> – No punishment without law</jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Primary Legal issue</jats:bold>: “The use of the ‘blanket reference’ or ‘legislation by reference’ technique in the definition of an offence and the standards of comparison between the criminal law in force at the time of the commission of the offence and the amended criminal law.”</jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Link to case</jats:bold>: &lt;<jats:uri xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=003-6708535-9264619">http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=003-6708535-9264619</jats:uri>&gt;.</jats:p>