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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. It 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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 Meeting
of the Bureau of the CCJE
The Bureau of the CCJE met in The Hague on 17 March 2010 to define working methods of the
CCJE, in the light of his terms of refence recently
adopted by the Committee of Ministers. The work of the
CCJE for 2010 concerns essentially the preparation of
Opinion No. 13 on the enforcement of judicial decisions
and the drawing up of the “Magna Carta of European
Judges".
Agenda
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 The
role of judges in the execution of judicial decisions
The CCJE has been entrusted in 2010 with the preparation
of an opinion on the role of judges in justice decisions,
in their relations with the other state functions and
other actors in the enforcement of judicial decisions.
The working group in charge of preparation of this
project met in The Hague from 17 to 19 March 2010.
He took the oppotunity of this mission to have an
exchange of views with the judicial community from
Netherlands on the concrete means to improve the
efficiency of enforcement procedures. The next meeting
of the working group will be held in Skopje, from 2
to 4 June 2010 (FYROM).
Agenda
Preliminary works
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 Exchange
of views of the Ministers’ Deputies with Ms Julia
Laffranque, President of the CCJE and Mr Olivier De
Baynast, President of the CCPE
At their
1075th meeting (20 January 2010), the Ministers’
Deputies proceeded to the
hearing of the Presidents of the CCJE, Ms Julia
Laffranque (Estonia) and of the CCPE, Mr Olivier De
Baynast (France),
took note of the joint opinion on relations between
Judges and Prosecutors and adopted the
terms of reference for the CCJE for the years 2010 and
2011. The Deputies took the occasion to congratulate
the CCJE to whom the Prize for Justice in the World has
been delivered in 2009 for the work achieved since its
creation, 10 years ago, and thanked Ms Julia Laffranque
who terminates her mandate at the end of January, for
the quality of her work during the time she was chairing
the Committee.
Speech
of the President of the CCJE, Ms Julia Laffranque (Estonia)
2010/2011 Terms of reference
Joint
opinion on relations between Judges and Prosecutors
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 Relations between Judges and Prosecutors
Following the plenary meeting in Slovenia from 18 to 20 November 2009, and after small formal modifications, the
final
version of Opinion No. 12 on relations between
prosecutors and judges, jointly worked out by CCJE
and CCPE is available. The Opinion will in principle be
submitted to the Committee of Ministers at their meeting
on 20 January 2010. At the same meeting, the CCJE's
working methods have been approved.
Meeting report of the CCJE plenary meeting
Working methods of the Consultatif Council of Europea
Judges
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 Impartiality
central to Council of Europe opinion on relations between judges and prosecutors
The Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) and
the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)
of the Council of Europe adopted on 20 November an
opinion on relations between judges and prosecutors. The
Council of Europe recalled that the development
throughout Europe of an independent, effective and good-quality
justice system, without which rule of law could not
exist, was central to its policies in the sphere of
justice (more).
Opinion on the relations between Judges and Prosecutors
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)
Speeches by Ms Julia Laffranque, President of the CCJE (17/11/2009
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18/11/2009)
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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.
Special file
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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.
Special file
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Documentation
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2010
 Calendar
2010
2010/2011 Terms of reference
Action plan
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the press
Prosecutors and Judges are claiming for the
independence of the public prosecutor's office (Le
Monde, 20/11/2009) (in French)
International Prize "Justice in the World" (Madrird,
03/11/2009)
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Communiqué - Comunidade de Madrid
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Video
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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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