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Peer-to-Peer international workshop with the Kosovo Judicial Council and the High Judicial Council of Albania on shared challenges concerning the efficiency and quality of justice
On 8-9 November 2022, members of the Kosovo Judicial Council and the High Judicial Council of Albania met in Tirana to discuss shared challenges concerning the functioning of their respective justice systems as well as the support that CEPEJ could provide in the coming years as a continuation of...
Impact of the Action ”Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Kosovo (KoSEJ)” on the future Strategy on the Rule of Law in Kosovo*
On 26 April 2019, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Working Group of Kosovo on the functioning of the judicial and prosecutorial system presented its Policy Paper to support the elaboration of the new MOJ’s Sector Strategy on the Rule of Law which take due account of recommendations made in the...
The Kosovo Judicial Council and Courts in Kosovo* finalise the KoSEJ court coaching reports in preparation of projects with all courts
On 16-18 April 2019, a team of three CEPEJ experts met with representatives of all courts in Kosovo and the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC), in a workshop and meetings, to finalise court coaching reports on the degree of implementation of the SATURN Time Management guidelines, and identify priority...
Initiating a sustainable data collection process in Kosovo* at the presentation of the Comparative Assessment report of the judicial system (2014- 2017)
On 14 March 2019, the CEPEJ international expert, Ms Julinda Beqiraj presented the main findings of the second CEPEJ assessment report of the judicial system in Kosovo to the judicial authorities, international partners and members of civil society organisations. The report was prepared with the...
Supporting the development of statistical reports to be generated by the Case Management Information System and the introduction of the electronic assignment of cases in Kosovo*
From 17 to 20 December 2018, the KoSEJ Action organised an expert mission to follow-up on the issues raised at the workshop held in May 2018 with high level international expertise to support the development and implementation of the Case Management Information System (CMIS) for courts and...
KoSEJ third Steering Committee meeting in Pristina
The Steering Committee meeting of the KoSEJ Action took place on 13 December 2018 in Pristina. This was an opportunity to discuss openly with beneficiaries and partners the activities and results of the KoSEJ Action so far and envisage the months ahead as the last period of the Action approaches...
Presenting the preliminary findings of the second CEPEJ assessment of the judicial system in Kosovo*
On 29 November 2018, the CEPEJ international expert Ms Julinda Beqiraj met with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice to present the preliminary findings of the second CEPEJ assessment of the judicial system in Kosovo, based on the 2017 data, and to discuss the recommendations made in...
Breakfast meeting with Kosovo* civil society organizations to discuss the CEPEJ methodology and indicators
On 22 November 2018, the Group for Legal and Political Studies organised a Breakfast Meeting with the KoSEJ Action and five civil society organisations involved in monitoring the judicial system to discuss the CEPEJ methodology and indicators. This meeting took place at the request of several of...
Fostering communications between courts and their users to improve the quality of justice in Kosovo*
According to the CEPEJ Handbook for conducting satisfaction surveys, the organisation and communication of feedback to the users are an integral part of the survey process. Following the satisfaction surveys that were held at the end of 2017 with the support of the KoSEJ Action at the Basic...
Launch of the 2017 data collection process to assess the judicial system in Kosovo*
On 20 June 2018, a CEPEJ international expert initiated, in Pristina, a new assessment phase based on 2017 data according to the CEPEJ evaluation grid which was adapted to Kosovo. This second initiative comes from a direct request of key KoSEJ beneficiaries to follow-up on the in-depth assessment...
Workshop with high level international expertise to support the future Case Management Information System (CMIS) in Kosovo*
On 24-25 May, the President of the CEPEJ together with a group of seven CEPEJ international experts on the use of information technologies in judicial systems led a workshop in Kosovo for representatives of courts, prosecution offices, the Kosovo Judicial Council, and the Kosovo Prosecutorial...
Results of the CEPEJ court users’ satisfaction surveys conducted in three courts in Kosovo*
On 15-16 May, the CEPEJ presented its expert’s analysis of the results of the individual court users’ satisfaction surveys that were carried out with the Basic Courts of Gjakova, Pristina and Prizren, in accordance with the CEPEJ Handbook for conducting satisfaction surveys. A workshop was...
Court Presidents and the Kosovo Judicial Council are increasing their use of CEPEJ indicators in Kosovo*
On 1 March, Court Presidents presented their 2017 annual reports to the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC). On this occasion, the KoSEJ Action witnessed positive results of its cooperation with beneficiaries to improve their methodology to analyse and report on judicial statistics. The annual reports...
Piloting the future Case Management Information System at the Basic Court of Ferizaj (Kosovo*)
On 7 February 2018, a visit was organized to witness the testing of the future Case Management Information System (CMIS), by its users (court staff) at the Basic Court of Ferizaj. In parallel to its direct work with courts in a court coaching programme which includes Ferizaj, the KoSEJ Action is...
Presentation of the in-depth study of the judicial system of Kosovo* carried out by the CEPEJ
The main conclusions and recommendations of a study carried out with the CEPEJ methodology on the judicial system in Kosovo will be presented to the judicial authorities of Kosovo* on 24 January 2018 in Pristina. The Council of Europe delegation, composed of the expert Ms Julinda BEQIRAJ, the...
Court Coaching Project in Kosovo* addressing the excessive length of proceedings in the Basic Court of Pristina
On 28-29 November 2017, a CEPEJ international expert met with the President of the Basic Court of Pristina, its statistics officer and civil judges to work on the implementation of a court-coaching project within the civil department of the court to address the excessive length of proceedings....
Launch of CEPEJ court users’ satisfaction surveys in Kosovo*
Since 15 November 2017, CEPEJ Satisfaction Surveys have been implemented in three pilot courts: the Basic Courts of Gjakova, Pristina, and Prizren. Two questionnaires for court users and for lawyers were prepared by a national Steering Committee set for this purpose and composed of court staff...
Strengthening the efficiency of justice in Kosovo* with courts and improved statistics
A team of three CEPEJ experts visited for the first time four Basic Courts (Mitrovica, Gjakova, Prizren and Peja) to collect information concerning the functioning of these courts and to discuss the implementation of the SATURN Time Management guidelines with the Courts’ Presidents on the basis...
Launch of CEPEJ satisfaction surveys in Kosovo* courts
With the support of a CEPEJ expert, a seminar aimed at the Kosovo Judicial Council, the courts, the Ministry of Justice and the Kosovo Bar Association took place on 12 September in Pristina to promote the use and methodology to implement satisfaction surveys according to the CEPEJ “Handbook for...
Cyberjustice study visit for Kosovo* to Estonia
With the support of two CEPEJ international experts, fourteen representatives from the judiciary of Kosovo (Kosovo Judicial Council, Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, members of the ICT-CMIS Project, as well as the Court Presidents of the seven Basic Courts) participated in a Cyberjustice study visit...
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