Fifteen judicial assistants of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Moldova refined their legal-drafting techniques during an intensive one-day workshop organised under the Council of Europe project on Strengthening the Institutional Capacity of the Supreme Court of Justice.

The workshop centered on producing judgments that are clear, concise and fully aligned with European drafting standards. Practical exercises challenged participants to shorten draft decisions without weakening legal reasoning, apply a unified structure of facts-analysis-operative part and adopt standard wording formulas that improve consistency across case-law.

Project consultant, Bert Maan emphasised the workshop’s guiding principle:

" Judgments are the Court’s way of communicating its decision—and the reasons for it—to the parties and the public, and they should be written so clearly that an average newspaper reader can understand them.”

By the end of the workshop, assistants had identified common drafting obstacles and agreed on concrete solutions, laying the groundwork for unified approached. According to the participants, clearer judgments will speed up the Court’s workflow and make its jurisprudence more accessible to lawyers, litigants and society at large.