CILC continues regional cooperation in the Western Balkans
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 and...
Macedonia // The importance of jurisprudence for the unity of law
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...
Georgia // CILC started a new Twinning Project
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...
President of the Indonesian Supreme Court visits his Dutch counterpart
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 justices...
Judicial Studies Institute, Uganda
“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...
PhD student defends thesis succesfully
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.
Building and maintaining a case law database in Macedonia
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...
Co-creating Business Models for judicial innovations
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...
Russia // Dutch assistance in amending Civil Code
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...
Opening of Legislative drafting seminar in Indonesia
Within the framework of Indonesian–Dutch legal cooperation a seminar for legislative drafters took place in Jakarta between 4 and 7 July 2011. On Monday, 4 July 2011, the opening session of the seminar...
From Russia with law
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...
Legal aid provision in Russia discussed
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...