The European Court of Human Rights last week announced that it has adopted, as of June, a new procedure that allows more detailed reasoning to be given in single-judge decisions. Since the introduction of the single-judge procedure in 2010, the Strasbourg court had been applying a very summary procedure to deal with its backlog of tens of thousands of cases. Although begun out of necessity, the summary judgments have drawn criticism from lawyers and academics who say they give no clarity or reasoning to people whose applications were rejected by such decisions.