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Consultative Council of European Judges
(CCJE)
The
rule of law is one of the main values upheld by the Council of
Europe and the judiciary is its cornerstone. It was to
strengthen the role of judges in Europe that the Committee of
Ministers set up the Consultative Council of European Judges.
The Consultative Council of
European Judges is an advisory body of the Council of Europe on
issues related to the independence, impartiality and competence
of judges.
The Consultative Council of
European Judges is the first body within an international
organisation to be composed exclusively of judges, and in this
respect, it is unique in Europe.
By establishing the Consultative
Council of European Judges, the Council of Europe highlighted
the key role of the judiciary in exploring the concept of
democracy and the rules by which it operates. |
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 Adoption of an opinion on relations between judges and
prosecutors
A
press conference will be held at the
Brdo Congress
Centre
on Friday 20 November at 1 pm. following adoption of the
opinion on relations
between judges and prosecutors. Meeting
in the context of the Slovenian Chairmanship of the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, at the
invitation of the Minister of Justice of Slovenia, Aleš
Zalar, the CCPE and CCJE will adopt a joint opinion on
relations between judges and prosecutors setting down
minimum guidelines for co-operation between them.
While the independence of judges is undisputed and
indisputable in any democratic society, the connections
between prosecutors and Ministries of Justice are far
more varied in nature, ranging from complete absence of
any hierarchical link to varying degrees of
subordination.
The question of relations between judges and prosecutors
is particularly important in the context of the
effectiveness of the right to a fair trial and of
respect for the principles of the separation of powers
and the rule of law.
Bordeaux Declaration: "Judges and Prosecutors in a
democratic society"
Speech by Mr
Aleš Zalar,
Minister of Justice of Slovenia
Speech by Mr Philippe Boillat, Director General of Human
Rigths and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe (in
French)
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 The
International Prize « Justice in the World »
awarded to the Consultative Council of European Judges
The
Foundation “Justice in the World”, created under the
patronage of the International Association of Judges,
decided to honour the Consultative Council of European
Judges (CCJE) with its prize in 2009 for its action
in favour of Judges in Europe. Ms Julia Laffranque
(Estonia), President of the CCJE, and Mr Philippe Boillat,
Director General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of
the Council of Europe, were awarded the Prize at a
ceremony in Madrid on 3 November 2009.
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10th
Plenary meeting of the CCJE
The 10th Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)
will be held from 18 to 20 November 2009 in Ljubljana,
Brdo Congress Centre (Slovenia) in the framework
of the Slovenian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers
and at the invitation of the Minister of justice of Slovenia, Mr Aleš Zalar,
former member of the CCJE for Slovenia. The Plenary meeting will be held at the
same time as the Plenary meeting of the Consultative Council of European
Prosecutors (CCPE). These two Councils should adopt a joint
opinion on relationships between judges and prosecutors. This opinion should
include a Declaration called "Bordeaux Declaration"
accompanied by an Explanatory Note. Documents have been drafted by the Working
Groups of the CCJE and CCPE at their joint meeting in Bordeaux in July 2009. A
press conference will be held at the Brdo Congress Centre on Friday 20
November at 1 pm.
 Agenda
Timetable and social programme
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 Message
for the members and observers of the CCJE
Draft Opinion
no12 on the relations between judges and prosecutors,
which has to be adopted jointly with the CCPE, is
currently being drafted by the Working Groups of the two
Councils.
The draft
Opinion has been sent to all members and observers of the
CCJE for consultation on 5 October at the latest. In
order to be discussed during the Plenary meeting,
comments on the substance of the text should be sent to
the Secretariat for 30 October at the latest. The
Secretariat would like to thank in advance the members
and observers for their co-operation.
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 European
Conference of Judges and Prosecutors
Organised by the CCJE and the the CCPE in co-operation with the "Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature" (ENM), the European Conference of Judges and Prosecutors
worked in Bordeaux (France) on 30 June; on the theme "Exercise of the missions of judges and prosecutors : complementarity and/or autonomy".
The results of this Conference have been used as a basis of preparatory works for the 2009 opinion to be adopted by the CCJE and the CCPE on the same topic.
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the press
International Prize "Justice in the World" (Madrird,
03/11/2009)
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Communiqué - Comunidade de Madrid
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other events
 VI
Congress of the Spanish Association of judges
(27/10/2009, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria)
Speech by Julian Laffranque
100th
anniversary of the Italian Association of
Judges and Public Prosecutors (25/06/2009, Roma)
L'Associazione nazionale magistrati e l'Europa in Bruti
Liberati, Edmondo - Palamara, Luca (edited by) "Cento
anni di Associazione magistrati", IPSOA, 2009, 119-127
Raffaele Sabato
"Il codice etico dei magistrati italiani: un esempio per
l'Europa" in Bruti Liberati, Edmondo - Palamara, Luca (edited
by) "Cento ani di Associazione magistrati", IPSOA, 2009,
116-118
Raffaele Sabato
the conferences
European Conference of Judges and Prosecutors (Bordeaux, 30/06/2009 - 01/07/2009)
 Press
Communiqué from the French "Ecole nationale de la
Magistrature"
Article
published in the "Sud Ouest"
20th session of the Crans
Montana Forum (24-27/06/2009) (French only)
Final report of the research
"The emergence of a
European judicial culture"
carried out by the
Laboratory for the theory of law of the University
Aix-Marseille III (France) in cooperation with the
GIP Mission de recherche Droit et justice. (French only)
 Intervention by Julia Laffranque, President of the CCJE,
to the meeting of the Rapporteur Group on Legal Co-operation of the Committee of Ministers
Strasbourg (France), 17 February 2009 |
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