Tokens: An
unsatisfactory
feature
of
Protocol
No
.
11
to
the
Convention
,
which
ushered
in
the
permanent
Court
in
Strasbourg
,
is
that
a
national
judge
who
has
already
been
party
to
a
judgment
of
a
Chamber
in
a
case
brought
against
his
or
her
State
is
not
only
entitled
but
,
in
practice
,
required
to
sit
and
vote
again
if
the
case
is
referred
to
the
Grand
Chamber
.
In
his
partly
dissenting
opinion
in
Kyprianou
v.
Cyprus
(
[
GC
]
,
no
.
73797/01
,
ECHR
2005
-
XIII
)
,
Judge
Costa
described
the
position
of
the
national
judge
in
such
circumstances
as
“
disconcerting
”
,
the
judge
having
to
decide
whether
to
adhere
to
his
or
her
initial
opinion
on
the
case
or
“
with
the
benefit
of
hindsight
[
to
]
depart
from
or
even
overturn
[
that
]
opinion
”
.
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