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NJ & anyone else interested:
I have received a reply from my friend (English), the librarian at the ECHR in Strasbourg, it is quite long, but this is the gist of it & bears out what you have said:
'..............So yes, we have left the EU and therefore the jurisdiction of the ECJ. I haven’t read the details of the deal, but I think Boris was keen that the ECJ would not have any influence on British law.
But the UK is still a member of the Council of Europe and is still signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights. So the judgments of the ECHR are still relevant, and the Court will continue to receive applications from individuals against the UK and a tiny proportion of these will end up as judgments.
There is no enforcement procedure for the ECHR judgments, having signed the Convention the UK has agreed to execute the Court’s judgments. The ECHR only passes judgment, and once it has pronounced its work ends there. It is up to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to monitor the execution of the judgment in the member State. The Committee of Ministers does no more that monitor, providing guidance on how a judgment can be executed in the member State. The system works because the member States have agreed to abide by the judgments, and the protections and freedoms in the Convention resonate with the European common cultural heritage (Judeo-Roman).' .......