Search tips for the Dombase database

Tips

• The icon gives an alphabetical listing of terms.

• Enter your search term in the Freetext field if you want to search in all fields. If you want to search in a specific field, please see the List of database fields and the examples below.

• The keywords and search terms of different fields can be combined with AND or OR.

• Use the $ character as wildcard.

• The records of the hit list are sorted by the date when the decision was rendered (descending order).

• Click on Search to submit the query.

• The result list shows 20 records at a time. Click on to get the following page, and on to get the previous page.

• Following abbreviations for international human rights conventions and documents are used in DOMBASE

  CAT	Convention against Torture
  CCPR	Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  CEDAW	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  CERD	Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
  CESCR	Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  CRC	Convention on the Rights of the Child
  ECHR	European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  ECHRP-1	Protocol No. 1 to the ECHR
  ECHRP-4	Protocol No. 4 to the ECHR
  ECHRP-6	Protocol No. 6 to the ECHR
  ECHRP-7	Protocol No. 7 to the ECHR
  ESC	European Social Charter
  UDHR	Universal Declaration of Human Rights

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  
  Examples of combined searches in the Freetext field:

  1. Decisions of a specific court made in a specific year or before or after a specific year:

  Supreme Court and RD=1996
  Insurance Court and RD<1991
  Turku Court of Appeal and RD>1999

  2. Decisions of any court of appeal made in 1999

  JUD_BODY=court of appeal and RD=1999

  3. Decisions of a specific court or selected courts referring to a specific article in a human rights convention or to a specific Act of Parliament:

  Supreme Court and ECHR-8
  Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court and ECHRP-1-1
  JUD_BODY=court of appeal and PROVISION_ENG=Penal Code