On 26 July 2016, the new Twinning Light project, Strengthening the Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Criminal Matters, was officially launched at the EU InfoCentre in Skopje. The project is funded by the European Union’s IPA2012 program. The overall objective of this...
On 22 July 2016, the Parliament of Albania approved constitutional amendments which set the basis for judicial reform. This can be called not only a huge success for Albania, but also for the EURALIUS IV Mission. Through CILC, the Netherlands is one of the three EU...
Between 9-10 June experts in the Moldovan probation and penitentiary systems met for a round table on joint efforts for the social reintegration of detainees. This event marked the latest activity in improving the connection between intramural and extramural care in...
Evaluation of risk is the foundation of all types of reintegration activities. This was the basic idea at the Risk Assessment training held in Montenegro where trainees worked together on the use of a common tool kit. On June 13th and for the following five days 13...
From 2017 on, citizens and companies can submit their documents digitally in cases brought before the civil and administrative courts in the Netherlands. Litigants can follow each step of the process via a digital dossier called ‘My Case’. In addition, the...
The Judicial Sector Support Program (JSSP) has launched three explanatory documents (also referred to as “restatements”) on 17 May 2017 at the Erasmus Huis in Jakarta. The event was attended by 115 participants from the Indonesian legal community, including...
One of the aims of the regional IPA2014 funded project “International Cooperation in Criminal Justice: the Prosecutors’ Network of the Western Balkans” is to foster and strengthen the cooperation between the beneficiaries in the Western Balkans countries on the...
As of July 2016, we are proud to present our colleague Adeline Tibakweitira as a CILC Project Manager. Adeline has joined CILC in 2005, after obtaining an LLM in business and trade law from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her legal background has helped her to...
Between 15 – 28 May 2016, a group of Border Police officers from Bosnia and Herzegovina paid a visit to the Netherlands for a two-week training programme on document checking. The advanced level training programme took place at the ID Centre in Veldhoven (first...
On 24-25 May CILC organised a second meeting on the use of community service sentences for a new group of Montenegrin first instance criminal judges. This meeting focused on the tasks and duties of the probation service, the necessity of pre-trial advice, the...
Our work in the IPA2014 funded Western Balkan Prosecutors’ Network projects (WBPN-I and WBPN-II) has included providing assistance to beneficiaries in overcoming obstacles to sign Cooperation Agreements with EUROJUST. Such obstacles usually include issues related to...
Between 11 – 15 April a group of 12 Montenegrin legal experts – criminal judges and probation officers – paid a visit to the Netherlands. The goal of this visit was to get an insight into the use of alternative sanctions in the Dutch criminal justice...
On Monday 21 March 2016 the Minister of Justice of Ukraine paid a visit to CILC to discuss opportunities for assisting in Ukraine’s judicial reform process. Minister Petrenko was in the Netherlands for a bilateral meeting with his Dutch counterpart Minister Van...
Evaluation of risk must be the foundation of all types of reintegration activities. This was the basic idea at the Risk Assessment training held in Montenegro where probation and prison staff worked together on the use of a common tool kit. On February 15 and for the...
If your husband cheats on you and you want a divorce, how much would your case cost? Besides your costs for the lawyer, what would be the cost for the state of the judge, the office space, the photo-copying, the tea and the coffee? In most countries the government...
