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Practical Training for judges and lawyers for two
turkish Pilot Courts
A training session on settlement and mediation in civil
cases for selected judges and lawyers will take place in
Ankara (Turkey) on May, 15 th, with the participation of
a group of CEPEJ experts. The event will be an
opportunity to compare the different and similarities as
regards settlement between Turkey and the European
countries.
Programme
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The UIHJ Informs the CEPEJ of its draft Report on
the Efficiency of Civil Enforcement Procedures and the
Profession of judicial officer
The presentation of the project was made on 10 April
2013 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (France)
during the 22nd Meeting of the CEPEJ working Group on
the Evaluation of Judicial Systems. The General
Secretariat of the Council of Europe invited the UIHJ to
participate as an observer in the meeting of this
working Group to enable it
to submit its draft report on the efficiency of
civil enforcement procedures and the profession of
judicial officer in Europe.
More information
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CEPEJ visit to Morocco and Round table on the
notification of judicial decisions
 Within
the framework of the Council of Europe/European Union
Joint Programme on “Strengthening democratic reform in
the southern Neighbourhood", a group of CEPEJ experts
went to Morocco from 15 to 19 April. The delegation
has met representatives of the Ministry of Justice and
discussed the implementation of the recommendations
formulated in the first CEPEJ evaluation report on the
Moroccan judicial system. Specific activities to improve
time management in courts and quality of justice
services in the three pilot courts of Sidi Kacem,
Casablanca and Agadir have also be agreed upon. One of
the highlights of the visit has been the round table on
the notification of judicial decisions, which took take
place in Casablanca on 17-18 April 2013. The round table
has been opened by His Excellency, the Minister of
Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco, Mustapha Ramid.
Representatives from the Ministry of Justice of Morocco,
the National College of bailiffs of Morocco, the Bar
Association and Pilot courts also assisted. The aim of
this round table was to adopt measures to optimize
notifications for the civil Court of first instance of
Casablanca, notably through the identification of
primary means of notification.
More information
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Joint meetings on evaluation
and quality of justice
 The
meeting of the Working group on evaluation
of judicial systems (GT-EVAL) took place in Strasbourg on 10 and 11 April 2013. In the framework
of the launch of the new evaluation cycle of European
judicial systems (2012-2014), the group examined the
updated version of the evaluation scheme. A common
working day with the Working group for Quality of
justice (GT-QUAL) took place on 11 April 2013 in order
to define indicators to measure quality of
justice. The CEPEJ-GT-QUAL pursued its meeting on 12
April 2013, in preparing the guidelines on the
organisation of judicial maps concerning the organisation of
the court buildings.
Agenda of the Working group on evaluation of
judicial systems (GT-EVAL) - 10 & 11 April 2013
Agenda of the Working group for quality of justice
(GT-QUAL) - 11 & 12 April 2013
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The CEPEJ launches its co-operation activities with
Tunisian pilot courts
In the framework of the Programme "Strenghtening
democratic reform in the southern neighbourhood", the
group of experts of the CEPEJ went to Tunis from 27 to
29 March 2013 in order to strengthen its evaluation of
the Tunisian judicial system and its study of the
processing of the cases brought before the courts and
the state of computerisation of the judicial entities in
the courts. The experts in particular held meetings with
members of the Court of Cassation and the First instance
Court of Tunis (TPI1) in order to decide on
the follow-up which should be given to this
co-operation.
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The CEPEJ is conducting a survey on the organisation and
access of court buildings in the Council of Europe's
member States
 The
CEPEJ's working group on quality of justice (GT-QUAL)
has drafted a questionnaire which has been sent to
member States in order to obtain information on the
different approaches used by the Courts and solutions
developed by them in their daily work to facilitate the
acess to the services by Court users and improve
the quality of the public service of justice.
Questionnaire for collecting information on the
organisation and accessibility of Court premises
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Cooperation
strengthened between the CEPEJ and Turkey
 In the framework of the joint programme “Strengthening
the Court management in Turkey” (JP COSMASYT), financed
by the European Union and implemented by the Council of
Europe, the Ministry of Justice of Turkey has made
available to justice professionals the main CEPEJ tools
translated in Turkish.
CEPEJ page of
the website of the Ministry of Justice of Turkey
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Call
for comments: good practices and implementation examples
of the SATURN guidelines on length of judicial
proceedings
 The SATURN guidelines are aimed to reduce the length of
judicial proceedings. The document below contains
examples of good practices for the implementation of
these guidelines within European courts. It will be
regularly updated to take into consideration the various
judicial practices. We invite you to communicate your
comments on the relevance of these good practices, and
to complete them, if necessary (cepej@coe.int).
Saturn guidelines for judicial time management -
Comments and implementation examples
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