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60 years of international co-operation in criminal matters
Strengthening capacities of judges, prosecutors, but also of civil servants working on the matters related to mutual legal assistance is necessary, but improvement in this area is already notable. This was one of the conclusions of the conference “International Co-operation in Criminal Matters: a...
Judges discussed how to measure the impact of human rights training
A Regional round table “Assessing human rights training for legal professionals: challenges and good practices” was organised by the Council of Europe in Budva, Montenegro, for 25 judges, prosecutors and legal professionals from judicial and prosecutorial councils and judicial training...
Regional Winter Academy of Human Rights for the students of law faculties
From 2 to 6 March 2019, 48 law students representing 11 universities from five countries of the Western Balkans took part in the Regional Winter Academy of Human Rights in Šabac, Serbia. The School main theme was freedom of expression – a key human rights issue for the whole region. In an...
A new cycle of the training course on international cooperation in criminal matters for Serbian prosecutors
The new cycle of the online course on the International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (ICCM) started on 4 February 2019. This time the target audience became deputy prosecutors and prosecutorial assistants from basic prosecutor's offices under the jurisdiction of the Appellate Public...
Roundtable on the mechanisms for the execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgements in relation to Serbia
The round table on how to streamline the system of execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) in Serbia took place on 23 November 2018 in Belgrade. A three-hour meeting with the participation of judges of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Cassation and...
First regional HELP Training-of-Trainers for universities
The first regional HELP Training-of-Trainers (ToT) for universities of the Western Balkans was held on 6-7 November 2018 in Belgrade at the premises of the Law Faculty. The event was organised in cooperation with the South East European Law School Network (SEELS) gathering 40 participants from...
A survey on how the Serbian judiciary uses the European Convention on Human Rights presented in Belgade
A survey on the use of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention) and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights by the Serbian judiciary conducted by the Council of Europe was presented in Belgrade on 23 October 2018. The Round table gathered representatives of courts,...
The launch of the HELP course on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters for Serbian deputy prosecutors and prosecutorial assistants
Following a successful completion of the pilot course of the Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) on the International Cooperation in Criminal Matters (ICCM) for prosecutorial trainees in the first half of 2018, another round of the HELP ICCM...
Study visit of Serbian public and depute prosecutors to the Council of Europe
On 17-20 April 2018, a delegation of 22 public prosecutors and deputy prosecutors from Serbia visited Strasbourg. The participants met representatives of various services of the Council of Europe, such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
Conference on the right to a fair trial within reasonable time
On 3 April 2018, the Council of Europe, in-cooperation with the Supreme Court of Cassation of the Republic of Serbia, organised a conference ‘Right to a Fair Trial within Reasonable Time and the Compensation for the Violation of the Right: Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and...