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 recruited lawyers of case law departments of Supreme Courts of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, Appellate Court of Brcko District, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and two staff members of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council will be trained through three online webinars on the ley aspects of the ECHR relevant to Boisnia and Herzegovina. In addition, a session will be organised on how to identify ECHR-related issues in incoming cases and classify them in line with the approach used by the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The webinar is divided into three thematic sessions – prohibition of discrimination, identification and classification of human rights cases and the right to fair trial, each of the topics will be elaborated and presented by senior lawyers from the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights as well as the head of case-law department and the senior legal advisor of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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