Thursday 15 and Friday 16 November CILC organized a two day seminar in Skopje on the importance of case-law in the European Union. Judges and Justices of various Macedonian courts and representatives of the Macedonian Ministry of Justice were trained in a working...
CILC continues its cooperation with GIZ in a new EU funded project in the Western Balkans. The overall objective of the project “Fight against Organized Crime and Corruption: Strengthening the Prosecutors’ Network” is to improve and promote cross-border...
Macedonian delegation briefed on Dutch practices Unity of law in judicial decisions is of paramount importance. In any constitutional state judges are required to explain and apply the law equally to everyone. Consulting and scrutinizing prior judgments is a way to...
On 17 October 2011, the kick-off meeting for the new Twinning project “Better Enforcement System Through Twinning (BESTT)” took place in Tbilisi. Twinning projects are an instrument of the European Union for candidate countries and countries of the European...
Between 31 October and 4 November 2011, a high-ranking Indonesian delegation, headed by the president of the Indonesian Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) Dr. Harifin Tumpa visited the Netherlands. The delegation – consisting of a number of deputy presidents and...
“Curriculum development reaches completion; First course delivery to be expected” Curriculum development is the core business of the NUFFIC-funded project aiming to strengthen the Judicial Studies Institute in Kampala, Uganda (2009-2012). Currently the development of...
The Nuffic funded 5-year project ‘Strengthening the Law Faculties of the Kigali Independent University (ULK) and the National University of Rwanda (NUR)’ was closed in August 2010. This does not mean, however, that all project activities have already come to an end. A...
On Tuesday, September 20, CILC together with Mr. Marc van Opijnen, Advisor on Legal Informatics at the Netherlands Council for the Judiciary, paid a visit to Macedonia to speak about the various ways to build and maintain a functional open-access case-law database...
On 18 August CILC as partner of Innovating Justice participated in a Co-Creation Event on Business Models for Justice. These cases covered a broad spectrum of areas for innovation: legal information and education, dispute resolution, courts and legislation. The event...
Various legal concepts in the area of proprietary rights and legal persons discussed in the Dutch-Russian project on the modernization of the Russian Civil Code. Over the past 20 months the Russian Research Center for Private Law and the Council for the Codification...
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040024OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040023OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA334OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAP7040014OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA330 Within the framework of Indonesian–Dutch legal cooperation a seminar for legislative drafters took place in Jakarta between 4...
Five Russian students from various universities in Moscow and St-Petersburg visited The Hague 3-10 July for an intensive study week that focused on international law, the international courts and tribunals in The Hague, the Dutch legal system and the bilateral...
In May and June CILC paid a visit to Moscow and Yekaterinburg for a working meeting on legal aid provision and a roundtable on a survey on legal needs and access to justice. On Monday May 30 the Russian Ministry of Justice in Moscow hosted a working meeting on legal...
The two-day seminar aimed at deepening the understanding of the importance of the jurisprudence of the ECHR took place in Skopje on 6 and 7 June. Judges and Justices from first and second instance courts from all over Macedonia, as well as representatives of the...