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OSCE Skopje Mission holds trial observation training for legal experts
SKOPJE 17 May 2004
SKOPJE, 17 May 2004 - The OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, in close co-operation with the Council of Europe and the NGO coalition, All for Fair Trials, on Monday began a two-day training session on international fair trial standards.
The event is intended to deepen legal experts' knowledge and better equip them to identify areas requiring judicial and legal reform.
The session is being attended by some 30 lawyers, attorneys at law, and legal experts who have been involved in trial observation for over a year.
"They will look into various aspects of the right to fair trial and will examine the rules and procedures of the European Court for Human Rights. This type of training furthers the domestic know-how and in so doing supports the ongoing reform of the judiciary," said Victor Ullom, Head of the OSCE Mission's Rule of Law Unit.
Special emphasis is being given to Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Right to a Fair Trail, which will be presented by two experts from the Council of Europe, Dierdre Fottrell, Lecturer at the Department of Law at Essex University, and Ivan Lishchina, Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights.
Radica Lazarska-Gerovska, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's agent before the European Court of Human Rights, will present on the domestic cases currently proceeded at the Court in relation to breaches of Article 6.
As a follow-up to an interim report on the implementation of the international fair trial standards in domestic courts, the training session will also enable the NGO Coalition to provide additional analysis of the Government's progress in this area. The Coalition will present these findings in its next report to the Ministry of Justice and other judicial authorities.
The event is intended to deepen legal experts' knowledge and better equip them to identify areas requiring judicial and legal reform.
The session is being attended by some 30 lawyers, attorneys at law, and legal experts who have been involved in trial observation for over a year.
"They will look into various aspects of the right to fair trial and will examine the rules and procedures of the European Court for Human Rights. This type of training furthers the domestic know-how and in so doing supports the ongoing reform of the judiciary," said Victor Ullom, Head of the OSCE Mission's Rule of Law Unit.
Special emphasis is being given to Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Right to a Fair Trail, which will be presented by two experts from the Council of Europe, Dierdre Fottrell, Lecturer at the Department of Law at Essex University, and Ivan Lishchina, Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights.
Radica Lazarska-Gerovska, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia's agent before the European Court of Human Rights, will present on the domestic cases currently proceeded at the Court in relation to breaches of Article 6.
As a follow-up to an interim report on the implementation of the international fair trial standards in domestic courts, the training session will also enable the NGO Coalition to provide additional analysis of the Government's progress in this area. The Coalition will present these findings in its next report to the Ministry of Justice and other judicial authorities.