The Council of Europe HELP course on Property Rights was launched during the hybrid event for more than 40 candidate judges and prosecutors in cooperation with the Judicial Academy of Serbia. The event was organized by the “HELP in the Western Balkans” project funded by Human Rights Trust Fund. This specific course is one of the priority courses selected at the 1st Steering Committee meeting that will support the increase of capacities of legal professionals to apply the ECHR and ECtHR case-law in their daily work.
The event was opened by Nenad VUJIC, Director of the Judicial Academy of Serbia, who welcomed the participants by stating that this HELP course is one of the courses embed in the initial training. The participants were also introduced to the HELP Programme and its online platform with over 45 courses on human rights available in the self-learning format. The co-tutors, judges of the Supreme Cassation Court, Katarina ANDRIC and Gordana KOMNENIC, presented the course and the additional materials that the participants will have the opportunity to get familiarized with in the next eight weeks.
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The HELP course on Property Rights has been developed by HELP, the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals that supports the Council of Europe (CoE) member states in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at the national level. It has been funded by the Kingdom of Norway in the framework of the project “Reinforcing the capacities of the judiciary to apply European Human Rights Standards at the national level in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 is as important as other Articles of the ECHR because it allows the individual to be independent. It is not possible to be a free person in the absence of property rights. Moreover, not only natural persons but also corporate bodies may invoke Article 1 of the Protocol.
This free on-line course is primarily addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers or senior court staff), but can be also useful for other state authorities, including solicitors or attorneys general, national human rights institutions, as well as civil society organizations and law students.
