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 Call
for events - European Day of Justice - 2012
On the initiative of the Council of Europe and the
European Commission, the European Day of Justice is
celebrated every year on 25 October. Judicial
institutions of the Council of Europe's members States
are invited to actively participate in the celebration
of this day, by organising events for a wide public (in
particular youth) and judicial professionals. The
programmes of the various events are published as soon
as they are transmitted to the CEPEJ Secretariat.
Judicial institutions of the member States are requested
to inform Annette.Sattel@coe.int about their programme.
For information, a new edition of the "Cristal Scales of
Justice" will be held in 2012. More detailed information
on this subject will be published soon.
More information on the European Day of Justice
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 Access
to judges: which improvements for which effectivity ?
The University of Franche-Comté will publish in 2012 a
book issued from a collective research, under the
direction of Virginie Donier and Béatrice Lapérou, on
"Access to judges: which improvements for which
effectivity ?". The book deals with the material and
procedural dimensions of access to judges in the
national and international legal systems and thus allows
to draw up a prospective balance sheet of the
improvements concerning the right of access to judges.
Map of the book
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 The
CEPEJ in Albania
A CEPEJ delegation composed of Jacques Bühler, President
of the Steering group of the SATURN Centre for judicial
time management and Stéphane Leyenberger, Secretary of
the CEPEJ, went to Tirana from 17 to 20 January 2012 in
order to meet representatives of the albanian judicial
world during a "Gathering around CEPEJ" session, aimed
at promoting the tools and measures developed by the
CEPEJ, and to implement the court coaching programme of
the District Court of Tirana (member of the Network of
CEPEJ Pilot courts), in order to facilitate the
application of the SATURN Guidelines. These events have
been organised in co-operation with EURALIUS Programme
of the European Union.
Press review
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 Assessment
of policy and procedures for the selection of judges in
Azerbaijan
The Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan requested CEPEJ's
assistance to verify if its new policy for the
appointment of judges is in conformity with European
standards in the field of justice and Rule of Law. The
report, which describes the main orientations of this
policy and the methodology for the selection of
candidates, has been drawn up by Hognes BERG, Head of
International Secretariat, Norwegian Courts
Administration and CEPEJ member, and by Ms Ivana GORANIC,
Director of the Judicial Academy, Republic of Croatia,
Representative of the Lisbon Network to the CEPEJ. The
report is based, in particular, on the opinions of the
Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) as well
as on the Committee of Minister's recommendations in
this field.
Assessment of policy and procedures for the selection of
judges in Azerbaijan
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A guide for courts wishing to implement SATURN judicial
time management tools
The Guide has been drawn up by the CEPEJ SATURN Centre
for judicial time management, developed on the basis of
a preliminary study on 7 pilot courts led by Jon T.
JOHNSEN (Norway), member of the steering group of the
SATURN Centre. The guide is intended to courts and legal
professionals wishing to concretely implement the tools
developed by the CEPEJ to improve judicial time
management and optimize by the way the delays and the
foreseeability of judicial procedures. This guide can be
used in the framework of training programmes offered by
the CEPEJ to voluntary court staff, who can contact the
CEPEJ Secretariat
to this end.
Implementing the Saturn management tools in courts - A
guide
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 Study
on Council of Europe Member States on Appeal and Supreme
Courts' Lengths of Proceedings
Optimisation and foreseeability of lengths of judicial
proceedings in Europe is one of the CEPEJ and Council of
Europe's priorities, as it is reminded in the report
drawn up by Marco Velicogna (Research Institute on
Judicial Systems, Bologna, Italy). On the basis of the
information collected by the CEPEJ during the 2008-2010
evaluation cycle of European judicial systems, this
study analyses in depth lengths of proceedings in second
instance (appeal) and at Supreme Court's level and
completes, by the way, the 2010 Edition of the report on
European Judicial systems.
Study on Council of Europe Member States on Appeal and
Supreme Courts' Lengths of Proceedings
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New
activity programme for the CEPEJ
The activity programme of the CEPEJ fr 2012-2013,
adopted at the plenary meeting at the end of last year,
focuses in particular on the evaluation mission of the
functioning of European judicial systems and the
effective implementations, in the courts, of measures
developed by the CEPEJ in the fields of management of
judicial timeframes and of promotion of the quality of
justice to users.
Activity programme 2012-2013
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 International
documents for independent and efficient judiciary in
Macedonian
The Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors of the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia published Editions
I and II containing international documents for independent and
efficient judiciary in Macedonian. These books contain
the Opinions of the Consultative Council of European
Judges (CCJE), completed by 63 other selected relevant
international documents which guarantee the independence
and efficiency of the judiciary adopted by different
bodies of the Council of Europe (especially CEPEJ) and
by the United Nations. It contains also selected case-law
of the European Court of Human Rights, which have been
quoted in the CCJE's opinions. These books will be
widely distributed to judges, prosecutors and other legal
professionnals in the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia.
Edition I of International documents for independent and
efficient judiciary in Macedonian
Edition II of International documents for independent
and efficient judiciary in Macedonian
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 Justice
budgets: the CEPEJ reports participate in the evaluation of
the situations
In several member States the justice budgets are
currently the object of particular attention in the
context of controlling public expenditure. In the framework of these reflections,
reference is often made to CEPEJ work.
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 Delay
reduction in courts of justice
Petra Pekkanen, Researcher at the Lappeenranta
University of Technology, has recently published an
interesting work on "delay reduction in courts of
justice - possibilities and challenges of process
improvement in professional public organizations", which
had been previously presented to the CEPEJ. This work is
directly linked to the project which was awarded by the
Jury of the Prize "Crystal Scales of Justice" in 2010.
Link to the work published
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 18th
plenary meeting of the CEPEJ
The 18th
plenary meeting of the CEPEJ took place in
Strasbourg, from 7 to 8 December 2011. The Commission
reviewed the evaluation process of judicial systems
in view of the preparation of the nex report, which
should be issued in September 2012, as well as on the
work already underway in the field of time management in
courts and quality of justice and, in particular, on the
implementation of training programmes proposed to the
courts (judicial time management and satisfaction
surveys of court users). The CEPEJ also welcomed
Daniela Piana, Associate Professor at the Bologna University, to
make a presentation on "Monitoring and evaluation as new
ways of judicial governance". Finally, the Commission
adopted its terms of reference for the two coming
years.
Meeting report
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Evaluation of the maltese judicial system by CEPEJ
experts
A CEPEJ delegation visited Malta to meet the highest
representatives in the country in the field of justice
and to discuss the implementation of CEPEJ's
recommendations with public stakeholders and legal
professionals in order to improve the functioning and
the efficiency of the maltese judicial system. The
delegation had in particular an exchange of views with
the Minister of Justice, Mr Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, on
23 November 2011
Communiqués - Press from Malta
The Malta independent /
Times of Malta
Programme
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 The
9th CEPEJ Newsletter has been published
The 9th
CEPEJ Newsletter is dedicated to measuring the quality
of justice: the ascertainment of users’ expectations.
The first experiences of the courts that have carried
out satisfaction surveys (France, the Netherlands and Italy)
are described in the Newsletter. You can subscribe free
of charge.
Newsletter No. 9: Measuring the quality of justice:
ascertainment of users’ expectations
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 A programme
to organise court satisfaction surveys
CEPEJ offers to the volunteer courts of member states a
programme to support them in organising user
satisfaction surveys, based on the Handbook adopted in September
2010.
The courts interested are invited
to contact the CEPEJ Secretariat:
stephane.leyenberger@coe.int.
Handbook:
CEPEJ Studies No. 14
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A training programme on judicial time management
is available for the Courts
The District Court of
Prague (Czech Republic), Queen's Bench Division of the
High Court of Justice (BBD) and the Central London Civil
Justice Centre (CLCJC) (United Kingdom), Tbilisi Appeals
Court (Georgia), First Instance Court of Turin (Italy),
First instance Court of Nedre Romerike (Norway) and the
Judicial district Dorneck-Thierstein (Switzerland) have
tested the implementation of the tools developped by the
SATURN Centre for judicial time management of the CEPEJ,
in conformity with the methodology implemented by
experts the CEPEJ's experts. This pilot exercise allowed
concrete implementation of the CEPEJ tools, thus
enabling the improvement of time management in courts.
As regards this experience, the CEPEJ proposes to the
courts that wish to participate, to support them in the
enforcement of these measures, through a training
programme: an expert from the CEPEJ will be available
to go to the Court in question, for one or two days and
to discuss with judicial staff and non-judge staff in
order to facilitate the use of the CEPEJ tools.
Interested Courts are invited to contact the Secretariat
of the CEPEJ:
stephane.leyenberger@coe.int.
Report on the implementation of SATURN time management
tools
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