|
 Raffaele Sabato was elected
Chairman of the Consultative Council of European
Judges (CCJE) on 25 November 2005 by a unanimous
vote of the Council’s Plenary. He took up the CCJE’s
Chair on 1 January 2006 until January 2008, succeeding the previous
Chairmen, Lord Mance and Alain Lacabarats.
Mr Sabato is a Court of Appeal
Judge, serving as a judge in the Tribunal of Naples,
Italy, where he mostly deals with civil and
commercial litigation.
Prior to his election, Mr Sabato
– having a graduate and post-graduate educational
background in law (Italy) and political sciences
(Italy), as well as holding a Master’s degree in
Comparative Jurisprudence (U.S.A.) – spent several
years working in the fields of international and
European law, internation judicial co-operation,
organisation of judicial systems, alternative
dispute resolution, and judicial ethics. Serving as
a judge since 1991, he was a member the Scientific
Committee at the Italian Higher Council for the
Judiciary (1998-2001), responsible for judicial
training at a national level; he was specifically in
charge of training in international and European
judicial co-operation in civil matters, and the
setting up of judicial training programmes under the
auspices of the European Union.
As an expert of the Council of
Europe, Mr. Sabato has taken part in a number of
missions and initiatives within programmes aimed at
promoting reforms in the legal systems and human
rights (Albania, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Russian
Federation, etc.) as well as judicial and
prosecutorial training (Lisbon Network).
Mr Sabato served as member of the
CCJE and its Working Party since its very start in
2000, and was elected Vice Chair of the CCJE and
Chair of its Working Party in November 2003.
A
part-time professor in civil law and judicial
systems in post-graduate programmes aimed at the
preparation of judicial candidates in Italy, Mr
Sabato published and lectured widely on various
issues in civil, international and European law,
procedural law, human rights, mediation and judicial
ethics.
Since 2012, Mr Sabato is member
of the Board of the Academy for the Judiciary
(Italy). |
