As a follow-up of the module-scoping exercise done in January this year, [the EU/CoE Joint Project “Protecting Internet Freedom through Legislation and Arrangements for Multi-stakeholder Dialogue” and the  Project “Strengthening the Capacity of the High School of Justice of Georgia” funded by the voluntary contributions of the Council of Europe Member States, supported], High School of Justice of Georgia trainers were engaged on 25-26 February in a two day training session on the judicial review of cybercrimes.

The project continues to provide expertise on the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and related guidelines, particularly on the electronic evidence. This training of trainers enabled Georgian judges to enhance their professionalism in relation to both legal aspects? of the cybercrimes and the technical side of such crimes, given the dynamics of the technological development. Electronic currency, gambling, evidence deriving from the IP address and means of distorting them are only a few  issues that trainees have been discussing during the sessions. As a Tbilisi Appeals Court judge noted: "We are witnessing a breakthrough, eye-opening training preparation process that is going to have a positive impact on the way courts tackle the increasing number of cybercrime-related cases”. As a next step, the trained judges will deliver pilot trainings for the peer judges in April this year.

As a result, the HSoJ will be able to deliver a module on judicial review of cybercrimes part of the permanent in-service training programme for judges.

The activity was jointly organised within the framework of the CoE Project “Strengthening the capacity of the High School of Justice of Georgia” funded by voluntary contributions of Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Norway, Slovakia and Sweden to support the implementation of the Council of Europe Action plan for Georgia 2016-2019 and the CoE/EU Joint Project:  “Protecting internet freedom through legislation and arrangements for multi-stakeholders dialogue”.