Kosovo Bar exam resumes - ten years on
(Lubomir Kotek/OSCE)Students of the Law Faculty of Pristina University attending a
class of International Public Law given at the Kosovo Law Centre. (Lubomir Kotek/OSCE) Photo details
PRISTINA, 18 October 2001 (OSCE) - Kosovo will be seeing its own Bar/Judicial Exam for the first time in nearly a decade, with the support of the OSCE.
The OSCE is running training classes for the exam, starting tomorrow, 19 October. The exam itself will be run by Department of Judicial Affairs of United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Training for the exam is not obligatory - but it is aimed to assist the jurists to be well prepared for the substantial test. The training will cover topics which appear in the Bar/Judicial exam.
The OSCE sessions will run twice a week for two months before the exam. National legal experts will organize the lectures.
The exam itself will then be offered every three months, in Albanian and Serbian. A committee composed of members of the UNMIK Department of Judicial Affairs and the OSCE will select the candidates.
That committee has selected 60 candidates to take the first re-introduced exam.
The training is being backed by a wide variety of groups including the European Agency for Reconstruction, Council of Europe, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society and the American Bar Association/Central East European Law Initiative.
In the year 2002 the European Agency for Reconstruction will fund the entire project, with a grant of more than 140,000 euros.
The OSCE is running training classes for the exam, starting tomorrow, 19 October. The exam itself will be run by Department of Judicial Affairs of United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Training for the exam is not obligatory - but it is aimed to assist the jurists to be well prepared for the substantial test. The training will cover topics which appear in the Bar/Judicial exam.
The OSCE sessions will run twice a week for two months before the exam. National legal experts will organize the lectures.
The exam itself will then be offered every three months, in Albanian and Serbian. A committee composed of members of the UNMIK Department of Judicial Affairs and the OSCE will select the candidates.
That committee has selected 60 candidates to take the first re-introduced exam.
The training is being backed by a wide variety of groups including the European Agency for Reconstruction, Council of Europe, Kosovo Foundation for Open Society and the American Bar Association/Central East European Law Initiative.
In the year 2002 the European Agency for Reconstruction will fund the entire project, with a grant of more than 140,000 euros.