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Final Steering Commitee
The final Steering Committee meeting of the Project “Initiative for legal certainty and efficient judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina” took place on 26 June 2020. Due to the sanitary situation, the meeting was held online. It was attended by the representatives of the Constitutional Court of...
Third two-day webinar on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases
The third two-day online training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is organised on 25 and 26 June 2020. The webinar has been designed to...
Second two-day online training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in civil cases
Second two-day online training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in civil cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s (ECtHR) case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is organised on 22 and 23 June 2020. The webinar has been designed...
Harmonisation of the e-sentences database descriptors – meetings of the working groups
orking group meetings for harmonisation of the descriptors (key words) in administrative, civil and criminal cases for the case law database were organised on 18 June 2019 in Sarajevo. Administrative, criminal and civil judges of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of Republika...
Launch of Council of Europe HELP course: Introduction to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights
Staff members of the case law department of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of Republika Srpska and Appellate Court of Brčko District and Judicial and Documentation Centre of High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of...
Second two-day webinar on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases
A second two-day webinar/training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is organised on 15 and 16 June 2020. The webinar has been designed to...
Building capacity of the staff members of case law departments of highest courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Council of Europe continues to strengthen case law departments within higher courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a means to achieve a greater consistency of judicial practice in the country which does not have a State-level superior judicial authority. Starting 20 May 2020, eight newly...
Webinar for judges and judicial assistants on the reasoning and drafting of civil judgments
A two-day webinar, 18-19 May 2020, on legal reasoning and legal drafting in civil cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is underway. The webinar is organised for judges and judicial...
Webinar for judges and judicial assistants on the reasoning and drafting of criminal judgements is underway
A webinar on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is taking place today and tomorrow, for judges and judicial assistants. The webinar is...
Launching of HELP course on Property rights and the European Convention on Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
An online preparatory meeting was organised today, 9 April 2020, to launch HELP online course on Property rights and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for the staff members of the case law departments of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Supreme Court of Federation of Bosnia and...
Training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights
Legal reasoning and legal drafting of criminal judgements is the focus of the training organised for judges and judicial assistants in Mostar, from 12-13 March 2020. In focus are requirements under European Convention on Human Rights and relevant findings of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and...
Training for judges and judicial assistants on the reasoning and drafting of judgments
A training on legal reasoning and legal drafting in criminal cases with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is taking place in Tuzla, from 5-6 March 2020, for judges and judicial assistants. The...
Moot Court Competition for students of the Human Rights Legal Clinic
The Human Rights Legal Clinic in Sarajevo was finalised on 20 December 2019 with a moot court competition. The Clinic was attended by students from the Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo as an extracurricular activity during the winter semester of the academic year 2019/2020. Students...
Working group meeting for the development of descriptors for the e-sentences database
A working group meeting was held on 20 December 2019 for the development of the descriptors (key words) in administrative, civil and criminal cases for the e-sentences database. Heads of the case-law, administrative, criminal and civil departments of the highest courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina...
Better reasoning of civil judgments assured through a tailored judicial training of trainers
The training of trainers for judges on the reasoning of civil judgments was held on 16-18 December 2019 in Banja Luka. The training was organised in cooperation with the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska and it focused on...
Third training on legal reasoning and legal drafting for judges and judicial assistance
A third training on legal reasoning and legal drafting with the consideration of the European Human Rights Court’s case law and decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was organised for newly appointed judges and judicial assistants from 9 - 10 December 2019 in Banja Luka,...
Better reasoning of criminal judgments assured through a tailored judicial training
The training of trainers for judges on the reasoning of criminal judgments was held on 11-13 November 2019 in Sarajevo. The training, which was organised in cooperation with the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska (JPTCs),...
Human Rights Legal Clinic launched in Sarajevo
Following the opening of the Human Rights Legal Clinic for students in Mostar for the Law Faculties of University of Mostar and Džemal Bijedić, the Council of Europe continues to support human rights education for law students. On 25 October 2019 a new legal clinic was launched at the law faculty...
Shared responsibility in implementing the European Convention on Human Rights: addressing challenges with (new) judicial tools in focus of the Regional conference in Sarajevo
The two-day Regional conference on ensuring the principle of subsidiarity of the European Court of Human Rights through empowering the judiciaries to apply the Court’s standards held in Sarajevo on 24 and 25 October 2019 gathered over 40 participants across the region. “Today we are launching a...
Second Steering Commitee Meeting
The Council of Europe held on 23 October 2019 in Sarajevo the second Steering Committee meeting of the Project „Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina“. The steering committee members include the key stakeholders within the judiciary: the High Judicial...
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