You have just read an ECtHR case and annotated it. You have also created you first case note, not only for this course but also for your personal archive. Now imagine you work as a paralegal in a big law firm and it is May 2023. Your boss tells you that on 15 May 2023, the ECtHR will deliver a Grand Chamber ruling in Sanchez. Since you are already acquainted with this case, your boss asks you to be ready on "Day D", to read the GC judgment as soon as it comes out and to send her a memo with the most crucial information within 30 minutes of the case's publication.

So that is exactly what you should do now. Use HUDOC again to find the GC judgment in Sanchez v. France and download it, PDF or Word, whatever you prefer. Set a timer to 30 minutes and try to work as efficiently as you can. You already know the story (and you can always use your case note to refresh your memory) so you can skip directly to the legal analysis. You will also know where to look for the Court's opinion so that you don't lose time reading the arguments of the parties. Rememer, your boss wants to know how the Court decided and why, she will probably want to understand the main arguments. She may also want to know whether there are any separate opinions attached to the judgment and whether there are any good arguments in them.

The 30 minutes you have are not much, I know. But do your best - and create a "quick memo" within this timeframe. Your boss is not expecting miracles, and neither am I. Remember, this is a skills course - and in this assignement, you are learning to work within a given (short) time frame.

After you have submitted your quick memo, your boss thanks you and she tells you to spend the rest of your working day reading the GC judgment carefully. Take as much time as you need - but don't forget to measure it, since this time will be billed to the law firm's clients, says the boss! Measure only the time effectively spent reading the case and annotating it. It might be a couple of hours, or even days, and that's perfectly OK. You can even listen to the parties' oral pleadings before the Court (https://www.echr.coe.int/web/echr/all-webcasts) to which we will get later in the course. Not mandatory, but potentionally helpful.

After your thorough reading & annotating, you may want to revisit your original "quick memo" and turn it into a proper full memo with all the information you consider relevant. There is no minimum or maximum page limit for this assignment - just make your boss happy with a very good and thorough document, your only source being the GC judgment itself. (Don't worry, in the next step you will be also delving into academic sources, but for the full memo you only need the case itself.)