In co-operation with the General Prosecutors Office, the Council of Europe and the European Union organised a two-day seminar to familiarise managers from Prosecutor’s Office with the latest case-law of the European Court of Human Rights related to fair trial standards stemming from article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Trainer prosecutors informed their peers about various aspects of fair trial such as the presumption of innocence, equality of arms and adversarial procedure, guarantees against self-incrimination, adequate means for defence, other rights of defendant and criteria’ for admissibility of evidence. In addition, participants overviewed identified challenges of practice related to observation human rights standards and discussed possible ways to overcome them. The meeting served as a good platform for further advancement of prosecutors’ performance while handling criminal cases in accordance with article 6 of the European Convention.   

The training  was organised under the EU/CoE joint Project "Supporting the criminal justice reforms - tackling criminal aspects of the judicial reforms in Georgia" within the framework of the Partnership for Good Governance programme.