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...
On 15 February the Kosovo Twinning project team came together at the Netherlands Stichting Studiecentrum Rechtspleging (SSR) – the Study and Training Center for the Netherlands Judiciary in Utrecht. In the framework of the project “Further support to legal education...
Between 15 – 16 February a group of 17 judges from first instance courts in Montenegro together with three probation officers discussed the practical sides of the implementation of community service sentences. These topics were introduced by Dutch legal experts Mr....
The CILC team in Indonesia and the Netherlands would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Mr. Adriaan Bedner with his new position as professor of Law and Society in Indonesia at the KITLV. Although in a new position, we look forward to continue the...
On 1 February 2016, upon arrival of the Resident Twinning Adviser, Mr. Klaus Erdmann, the implementation period of the EU Twinning project in Kosovo “Further support to legal education reform – KS14IBJH02” started. The project will be running for 30...
On 20 January, fourteen staff members of the National Council Secretariat of Bhutan challenged me to test their patience and courtesy with a journey into the document management and archiving underbelly of the project world. Everyone involved thought that we were...
CILC is looking for four (4) key experts for the tender Civil Society Participation Programme (co-financed by the EU “Programme for Legal Empowerment and Enhanced Justice Delivery”) in Zambia. Interested candidates fitting the profile descriptions below are invited to...
CILC and the Academy for Legislation conducted last week the second and regional part of the Matra South Training Program Legislation 2015. The training took place from 6 to 10 December in Rabat, Morocco. In total, 20 participants representing Egypt, Jordan, Morocco...
Between 3 – 4 December a group of 35 judges from Moldova, Romania and the Netherlands discussed challenges and solutions in managing case load and ensuring judicial quality, marking another step in the assistance the Netherlands is providing to the Moldovan justice...
Monday, 30 November CILC formally launched the EP-Nuffic funded project “Capacity building in higher legal education”, which is designed to provide support to the law faculties of four Palestinian public universities until May 2019. The launch was...
