State responsibility — Nature and kinds of — Responsibility for wrongs unconnected with contractual obligations — Exhaustion of local remedies — Meaning of "final decision" — Special remedies — Whether within scope of "local remedies rule" — Whether constituting an effective remedy — Distinction between matters open to review by special remedy and matters not so open — Power of international tribunal to distinguish between various elements in claim — European Convention on Human Rights, Article 27 — Time-limits — Moment from which time begins to run.

Treaties — Conclusion and operation of — Entry into force — Effect on continuing acts commenced prior to date of entry into force — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Application Ratione temporis.

Treaties — Interpretation of — Consideration of preparatory work — In relation to European Convention on Human Rights.

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — European Convention for Protection of — European Commission of Human Rights — Individual applications — Rights guaranteed by the Convention — Exhaustion of local remedies — Six months' time-limit — Ordinary and extraordinary remedies — Effective measures of redress — Presumption of innocence — Duration of preventive detention — Facts prior to entry into force of Convention — Right to be informed of charge promptly and in detail.