50 trainees of the 10th generation of the Judicial Academy of the Republic of Serbia have started HELP (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) course on the Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and European Court of Human Rights. This year the course has been listed as compulsory within the Judicial Academy’s Initial Training Annual Programme. Young legal professionals from Serbia are the first group which will be attending the updated version of the HELP course, which was launched on March 31st 2020.
The course is being implemented in co-operation with the Judicial Academy of the Republic of Serbia and the HELP in the Western Balkans, within the action “Strengthening the effective legal remedies to human rights violations in Serbia”, implemented under the European Union and Council of Europe Joint Programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2020”.
In the upcoming period participants of the course will have the opportunity to advance their knowledge on inter alia the structure and interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights, functioning of the European Court of Human Rights, life of the application submitted before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the process of execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgments.