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Final conference of the PCF project to improve the efficiency and quality of judicial services in Azerbaijan
Between July 2015 and March 2017 the CEPEJ and judicial authorities of the Republic of Azerbaijan co-operated actively to improve the efficiency of courts and the quality of judicial services. Designated pilot courts and the Justice Academy of Azerbaijan implemented tools developed by the CEPEJ...
Pilot courts in Azerbaijan actively implement CEPEJ tools and share the lessons learned with the public, other courts and stakeholders
Five pilot courts of Azerbaijan, including two appellate courts (Sumgayit and Sheki) and three first instance courts (Yasamal (district of Baku), Oghuz and Sumgayit administrative-economic court), are actively engaged in improving their own management and quality of services in line with...
Interview of Ramin Gurbanov, Vice-President of the CEPEJ
In an interview which was made at the Council of Europe studios, the Vice President of the CEPEJ, Mr Ramin Gurbanov explains the objectives of the CEPEJ and its missions in European courts. He also addressed the joint EU/COE project which is being implemented by the Council of Europe entitled:...
Pilot courts from Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova are implementing satisfaction surveys and other CEPEJ-recommended tools
Following training sessions and working group meetings, starting from March 2016 and focused on the questionnaires or the methodology for carrying out satisfaction surveys for users, lawyers and court staff, the national pilot courts adjusted the questionnaires to their objectives and started the...
Working group meeting on implementation of time management tools in the pilot courts of Azerbaijan
The CEPEJ cooperates with five pilot courts representing the first instance and the appellate levels of jurisdiction in Azerbaijan, including a specialised administrative-economic court. This cooperation has as objective to support the implementation in the courts of Azerbaijan of jointly...
Consolidation of the training on court management in Azerbaijan and in the Republic of Moldova
A workshop devoted to court management training was held on 27-28 June 2016 in Chisinau, in the Republic of Moldova. Managers and trainers, representing the Justice Academy of Azerbaijan and the National Institute of Justice of the Republic of Moldova, took an active part in the discussions on...
Working Group meeting on conducting satisfaction surveys in the CEPEJ pilot courts of Azerbaijan
On 21-22 June 2016, a Working Group meeting on conducting satisfaction surveys in the CEPEJ pilot courts of Azerbaijan was held in Baku. Representatives of 5 CEPEJ pilot courts too part. These courts will autonomously implement satisfaction surveys by the end of the year. Representatives of the...
Efficiency and quality of justice - study visits to Estonia, Slovenia and Croatia
Two study visits on efficiency and quality of justice for representatives of the CEPEJ pilot courts and justice stakeholders from Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova took place on 9-12 May 2016 (Estonia) and 24-26 May (Slovenia and Croatia). Representatives of the Moldovan and Azeri pilot...
A delegation composed of representatives from the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan participated to the meeting of the CEPEJ SATURN Centre for judicial time management in Strasbourg on 21 and 22 April 2016
Programme of the meeting: ENG - AZE
CEPEJ supports pilot courts in Azerbaijan and in the Republic of Moldova for conducting court users satisfaction surveys
A workshop on conducting court users satisfaction surveys was carried out by the CEPEJ on 17-18 March 2016 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, as part of the co-operation projects with Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova.* The participants in the workshop, representing CEPEJ pilot courts...
Roundtable with the CEPEJ pilot courts
After the meeting of its Steering Committee, the Project "Support to Increased Efficiency of Courts, Improved Training of Judges and Judicial Self-governance in Azerbaijan" organised on 2-3 March a roundtable to present the draft court coaching reports developed by the experts of CEPEJ. The...
Steering Committee meeting
On 2 March 2016 in Baku the Council of Europe held the first meeting of the Steering Committee for the CEPEJ Project "Support to Increased Efficiency of Courts, Improved Training of Judges and Judicial Self-governance in Azerbaijan". The event gathered the Project’s partners and justice sector...
Workshop to promote the implementation of the SATURN recommendations on judicial statistics in Azerbaijan
A workshop to promote the implementation of the SATURN recommendations on judicial statistics was organised in Baku on 27 November 2015. The workshop was primarily intended for the members of the Secretariat of the five pilot courts handling the collection and the analysis of the statistical...
Launching the court coaching programme for implementation of CEPEJ tools in the pilot courts of the Republic of Azerbaijan
In the framework of the PCF Project “Support to Increased Efficiency of Courts, Improved Training of Judges and Judicial Self-governance in Azerbaijan”, funded by the European Union, a team of CEPEJ experts visited Azerbaijan from 19 to 23 October 2015. After an initial fact-finding mission in...
Inception visit by CEPEJ experts to the Republic of Azerbaijan
On 21-24 July 2015, a delegation of CEPEJ experts visited the Republic of Azerbaijan in the framework of the Project “Support to Increased Efficiency of Courts, Improved Training of Judges and Judicial Self-governance in Azerbaijan”, which is part of the CoE/EU Eastern Partnership Programmatic...
Interview of the chairmen of two courts in the Republic of Azerbaijan about their co-operation with the CEPEJ
Mr Aladdin Jafarov, Chairman of the Baku City Yasamal District Court, and Mr Mubariz Akbarov, Chairman of the Sheki Appeal Court, have agreed to share their views about the work carried out by the CEPEJ in Azerbaijan since July 2015. They have pointed in particular to the involvement of the pilot...
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