By Ingrid de Haer with input from Jelena Tepić A group of 10 judges and public prosecutors, 2 Judicial Academy representatives and the interpreter of the Resident Twinning Advisor Language Assistance visited the Netherlands for a study visit between 2 – 8 April...
EU co-financed Twinning Project under the Transition Facility Programme for Croatia “Enhancing the quality of judicial training – by upgrading EU law and on-line trainings” (CRO EULAW) HR/14/IB/JH/03 is seeking to recruit an Administrative Assistant to the Resident...
By Yana Ballod Between 3 – 7 April a Moldovan delegation of judges, court employees and members of the Superior Council of Magistracy visited The Hague and Utrecht. The goal of the visit was to discuss with their Dutch colleagues the ways to optimize court...
By Nika Sharif On February 21st a high-ranking Indonesian delegation headed by the Chief Justice of the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) Dr. Hatta Ali visited the Training and Study Center for the Judiciary (SSR) in Utrecht. This marked the first visit of...
By Irina Karic In partnership with lecturers from the four universities in Palestine (An-Najah National University, Al-Quds University, Birzeit University and Hebron University) participating in the capacity building project “Capacity Building in Higher Legal...
Faculty managers from An-Najah University, Birzeit University, Hebron University and the Palestinian Judicial Institute (PJI) attended a leadership training in the Netherlands between 13 and 17 March. The training was offered in cooperation by MDF Training &...
By Irina Karic Between March 3 and March 6, 2017, MDF Training and Consultancy conducted a training in Jericho, Palestine on Local Fund-Raising & Social Media (LFR & SM), as part of the NICHE-supported capacity building program consortium, coordinated by CILC...
By Irina Karic The three-day training session on Project Cycle Management (PCM) under the NICHE project “Capacity Building in Higher Legal Education” was conducted from 24 February to 26 February, 2017 in Jericho, Palestine. Through this training, 10 participants from...
By Lino Brosius In the week of the first ever open testing of candidate judges for positions in the new Ukrainian Supreme Court, a selected group of judges from the Lviv region participated in a workshop on the independence of the judiciary and judicial ethics with...
By Eric Vincken On 19 January 2017, the Assembly of Kosovo adopted the Law on Academy of Justice. In line with this law, the Kosovo Judicial Institute, the Twinning partner of the project ‘Further support to legal education reform’ turned into the Academy of Justice...
By Lino Brosius Since 2008 judges in Montenegro can impose conditional prison sentences and community service sentences for minor offenses, including law and order breaches, shoplifting, traffic violations, and light cases of violence. Prosecutors and judges...
By Irina Karic As part of the capacity-building project that seeks to help elevate higher legal education in Palestine, CILC and An-Najah National University completed a three-day moot court training in Jericho, Palestine in the period 18 to 20 February 2017. The...
2017 brings exciting new opportunities to CILC, and with those we are happy to welcome four new colleagues to our team: Anne Spanheim, Manon Tiessink, Nika Sharif and Yana Ballod (left to right in photo). With 13 years of experience as project manager in the Rule of...
By Lino Brosius In October 2016, phase I of the project Peer 2 Peer 4 Justice Ukraine started. CILC and its Ukrainian partner organisation Centre for Judicial Studies implement this initiative that aims at strengthening the rule of law in the Lviv region of Ukraine....
By Lino Brosius On Wednesday 1st of February, Dutch and Montenegrin experts have started designing the future training programme on probation and alternative sanctions for the Montenegrin Judicial Training Centre (JTC). At the new premises of the Montenegrin JTC,...
