One of main priorities of the Council of Europe is to strengthen case law departments within the highest instance courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to achieve greater consistency of judicial practice in the country.

From 28-29 October 2021, seven legal advisors of the case law departments of Supreme Courts of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, Appellate Court of Brčko District and Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and two legal advisors of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council were trained on prohibition of discrimination, identification and classification of discrimination cases under the European Convention of Human Rights and the case law of the European Court for Human Right and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The purpose of the training was to enable the legal advisors to identify forms of discrimination and discrimination grounds, with a specialfocus on discrimination through violence.

The training was organised under the project: “Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Phase II” funded by the Kingdom of Norway.