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The Prize "Crystal Scales of
Justice"
 Since 2005, the Council of Europe and the European Commission are
organising together a competition to discover and highlight innovative and efficient
practices used in European courts for court organisation or for
the conduct of judicial proceedings (for example, initiatives devised by a court president, a registry, a Bar) and deserving
to be drawn to the attention of policy-makers and the judicial
community so as to improve the functioning of the public justice
system.
The Prize has been awarded on 25 October 2010 in Ljubljana (Slovenia),
at the main event of the European Day of Civil Justice, by a Jury of European legal professionals,
in presence of the representatives of the Council of Europe and
the European Commission.
In the past, the Prize concerned either criminal (2009) or civil
justice (2005, 2006 and 2008).
For the first time in 2010, the "Crystal Scales of Justice"
Prize will cover at the same time the fields of criminal and civil justice.
A representative of each of the 4 selected projects has been invited to the Prize Award ceremony for which a press conference
has been organised
in Hotel Lev (city centre of Ljubljana).
The jury of
eminent individuals from the judicial world, examined 50
applications from some 20 member states of the Council of
Europe.
Yambol
Administrative Court
(Bulgaria) won the award for its efforts to help users better
understand judicial procedures and related information (link
to winning project)
Three special
mentions were also given to projects from Austria, Finland and
Slovenia:
In 2011, the Crystal Scales of Justice will
not be organised.
Picture gallery
Award ceremony: speech by Maud de Boer-Buquicchio
Video-message of Ms Viviane Reding, Vice-President of
the European Commission
Link to the website of the Slovenian Ministry of Justice
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