Strengthening the Independence and Efficiency of the Justice System
The Project is Funded by the Kingdom of Denmark Through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
With this project, Council of Europe aims to
Improve procedural guarantees for the handling of criminal cases
- Improve procedural guarantees and institutional setting for handling criminal cases;
- Enhance the quality, consistency and uniformity of legal reasoning in the judicial decisions.
- Support the constitutional reform with due regard to European standards;
Strengthen judicial self- governance
- Strengthen the role and functioning of the High Council of Justice by improved regulation, increased work efficiency and institutional transparency;
- Support the on-going judicial reform in line with European standards, in particular with regard to the procedures of judicial appointments and evaluation of judges on probationary period;
- Improve ethical and disciplinary framework for the judiciary;
- Raise awareness of the judicial community and of the public on the procedures related to self-governance and disciplinary proceedings.
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Activities planned
- Provision of legal expertise on identified topics related to criminal justice;
- Development of guidelines and relevant internal acts of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office for dismissal of a case, for request of pre-trial measures , for plea-bargaining, etc.;
- Series of workshops/training for judges, prosecutors and lawyers;
- Conferences to share best practices;
- Roundtable discussions for the members of the Constitutional Reform Commission;
- Creation of a Thesaurus of terms for tagging and searching judgements of the Supreme Court of based on the concrete needs of Georgian judiciary;
- Study visits to European countries with the aim to exchange experience;
- Training sessions/peer discussion for the HCoJ/Monitoring Council and Disciplinary Committee;
- Translation and publication of relevant CoE recommendations and other standard-setting documents on judiciary.
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