Türkiye: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of the Court of Cassation
Target groups of the project are members, rapporteur judges, prosecutors, and auxiliary judicial staff of the Court of Cassation, for a total of approximately 3500 individuals.
Main stakeholders are first instance courts, appellate courts, the Constitutional Court and the Council of State as the supreme courts of Turkey, the Council of Judges and Prosecutors, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Justice department of Training, the Union of Turkish Bar Associations.
The main aim of the project “Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Court of Cassation” is to further strengthen and make more concrete and visible the independence, the impartiality, the efficiency and the administration of the judiciary in Turkey.
Specific objectives are:
- Strengthening the institutional capacity of the Court of Cassation;
- Enhancing the role of the Court of Cassation in preserving the uniform application of the law throughout the country.
- The legal framework governing the appeal process and the structure and functioning of the Court of Cassation will be assessed and revised;
- Working procedures and tools of the Court of Cassation will be revised, and new ones introduced to ensure a uniform practice by taking into account the best European practices;
- The quality of the training policy and programme of the Court of Cassation will be improved by taking into account best European practices.
Turkey: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Court of Cassation
International symposium on “The Impartiality of Judges and the Use of Social Media by Judges”
The international symposium on “The Impartiality of Judges and the Use of Social Media by Judges” was held online on 28 May 2021 with a view to elaborating on the topics of the impartiality of judges and the use of social media by exchanging international knowledge and experience on these topics....
European Union-Council of Europe Joint Project on “Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of Court of Cassation”
2nd International Symposium on “Reasoned Judgments In High Courts of Appeal”
The second international symposium on “Reasoned Judgments in High Courts of Appeal” was held online on 9 April 2021 with a view to exchanging international knowledge and experience on the work of the highest instance supreme courts. The event focused on the quality of judgments, importance of...
Turkey: Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of the Court of Cassation
First international symposium on the “Reasoned Judgments in the High Courts of Appeal”
The first international symposium on the “Reasoned Judgments in the High Courts of Appeal” was held online on 30 March 2021 with the aim to improve the reasoning in judgments of the Court of Cassation by discussing international experience and the work of the highest instance supreme courts. In...
