2016 Annual Conference of Serbian judges is taking place in Vranjacka Banja from 9 to 12 October.

Specific topics that are going to be discussed at the Conference are: Judiciary today, Laws and their implementations, and Actual issues of the jurisprudence. 

The Conference was opened by the Supreme Court Chief Justice Mr. Dragomir Milojevic.

The Conference was greeted by Ms. Nela Kuburovic, Minister of Justice; Ms. Vesna Ilic-Prelic, President of the Constitutional Court; H.E. Ambassador Michael Davenport, Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia; H.E. Ambassador Tim Cartwright, Head of the CoE Office at Belgrade. Representatives of judiciaries of Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia were also present.

The HELP is traditionally present at the Annual Judicial Conference in Serbia.

The CoE and HELP booklets, books, CDs with the ECtHR jurisprudence and other materials in Serbian were available to the Conference participants.

Interest of the judges and other legal professionals was at the high level and it is of no surprise that hundreds of books were picked up by the participants from the CoE booth.

The HELP representatives and CoE legal experts gave presentations on issues of assets recovery in criminal proceedings, and on issues of harmonization of jurisprudence, and take active participation in other debates

More than 1000 participants will have the opportunity to see presentations on the topics of criminal law, civil law, administrative law, and misdemeanor law, discuss the issues on the panels, hear the presentations of the legal experts, and discuss the disputable issues. The goals are efficiency increase of the judiciary and raising the level of human rights protection.

The Conference is supported by the CoE, JRGA Project, OSCE Mission to Serbia, World Bank and GIZ.