A training for lawyers from the Government Agent Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina is organised on 29 April 2022 in cooperation with the Execution Department. The aim of the training is to further strengthen the Government Agent Office staff’s technical skills and knowledge about drafting and submitting communications to the Committee of Ministers. The participants discussed good practices concerning the drafting of action plans and reports including the use of available sources to obtain information.
The training was carried out under the project: “Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Phase III”, funded by the Kingdom of Norway.Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Phase III
DETAILED PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Project title |
Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Phase III |
Country/region |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Budget |
700 000 EUR |
Donor |
The Project is funded by voluntary contributions in the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina (2022–2025)- |
Duration |
24 months (1 January 2021 – 31 December 2023) |
Partners and beneficiaries |
Ministries of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska, High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of Republika Srpska, Appellate Court of Brčko District; Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska; Law faculties of Universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina; judiciary in BiH, Office of Government Agents before the ECtHR. |
Main objective |
To ensure a better protection of human rights of individuals under the jurisdiction of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the help of an efficient judiciary which delivers a timely, high-quality and coherent justice in line with the ECHR standards and the ECtHR case law. |
What do we expect to achieve? |
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Key activities |
- Development of a structured training modules in line with Human rights training curriculum for initial and continuous training of judges and prosecutors; - Delivering of a structured training for judges/legal advisors from the case-law departments of the highest courts on consistency of judicial case-law and early identification of case law inconsistency and ECHR standards; - Training of the representatives of Office of Government Agents before the ECtHR trained on execution process procedures and legal drafting of execution process related documents; - Providing support to the national institutions in the process of execution of ECtHR judgements; - Establishment of a pool of trainers for initial training for newly appointed judges and prosecutors; - Thematic extracurricular activities on the ECHR standards for law students in Bosnia and Herzegovina; - Establishment of preconditions for a systemic introduction of a Human Rights curriculum at the public law faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Human rights training curriculum for initial and continuous training of judges and prosecutors
- Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights (B/H/S version)
- HUDOC and other tools for researching case law (B/H/S version)
- Principles of interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (B/H/S version)
- Principles of interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (advance level) (B/H/S version)
- Procedural rights (B/H/S version)
- Equality and non-discrimination (B/H/S version)
- Reasoning of judgments (civil and criminal) (B/H/S version)
- Women access to justice (B/H/S version)
- Victims’ rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (B/H/S version)
- Property rights under the Property rights under the ECHR (B/H/S version)
- Migration and Human Rights (B/H/S version)
- Hate crime (B/H/S version)
- Hate speech (B/H/S version)