Attorney General and State Advocate in Malta - Implementation of action plan on offices re-organisation

This Project aims to contribute to Malta’s efforts to implement justice reforms, support the operational independency of the Offices of the Attorney General and the State Advocate, strengthen their capacities and effectiveness of their operations. This will be achieved through the establishment of operational processes, measurements, continuous training and ICT integration. The Project will also contribute to the improvement of public trust, accountability and transparency of the institutions through supporting the development and implementation of respective communication strategies.

The project’s objectives are to support the development of the two offices by:

Ensuring their full operational independency
Improving public trust
Improving their accountability and transparency.

Adoption of internal strategies and introduction of new tools for the institutional and -administrative reorganisation of the two Offices.
Adoption of communication strategies for the Offices of the Attorney General and State Advocate aiming at improving public trust and transparency.
Improved capacity of the Offices of the Attorney General and State Advocate to provide continuous professional development to their officers.
A new IT system supporting the operations of the Offices of the Attorney General and State Advocate is designed and approved.

Recommendations and support on internal policies, case weighting methodologies, efficiency indicators for the offices and performance management tools
Recommendations on drafting, administration and analysis of surveys to measure public trust
Communication and public relations strategy with action plan
Recommendations on institutional set up on training including focus group discussions and workshops
Training programs on legal topics and soft skills
Training of Trainers on selected topics
Guidelines on the design/development/integration of the requisite IT tools/infrastructure to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the procedures and operation

Office of the State Advocate
Office of the Attorney General
Ministry of Justice

Project information

Duration: 24 months (31 October 2023 – 31 October 2025)
Country: Malta
Funding: “This project is co-funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument and implemented by the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the European Commission.”

Retour Artificial Intelligence in justice institutions: webinar for lawyers of the Office State Advocate

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Artificial Intelligence in justice institutions: webinar for lawyers of the Office State Advocate

Professional development and training efforts of the Office of State Advocate (OSA) continued through a webinar on the use artificial intelligence in justice institutions that focused on the benefits of and misconceptions around the use of AI by legal professionals and recent trends on the use of AI in justice institutions. The speakers of the webinar, Daniel Schmidt, Secretary of the CEPEJ Working group on cyberjustice and artificial intelligence and Thomas Lampert, Professor and Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University of Strasbourg addressed questions of participants regarding the advantages and risks of using AI in the daily work of the OSA including their legal research and drafting tasks.

The EU-CoE Joint Project “Attorney General and State Advocate in Malta - Implementation of action plan of offices re-organisation” is co-funded by the European Union via the Technical Support Instrument, and implemented by the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the European Commission.

16 october 2025