Work in this thematic area focuses on prisons and police (including human rights in policing, healthcare in prisons and safeguards against torture and ill-treatment), human rights standards in the judiciary (focusing on enhancing the application of case-law of the European Court of Human Rights), migration issues, the efficiency of justice systems (with a focus on analysing judicial statistics to optimise court administrations) and/or legal co-operation (which concentrates on increasing the individual independence of judges and prosecutors and the accountability of the judicial system).

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Regional Round Table on case law harmonisation

On 26 June 2017, the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Judicial Academy of the Republic of Serbia, organised a round table to review and discuss different concepts and examples of good practice in the Western Balkans concerning the harmonisation of judicial practice. Judges and advisers from the highest courts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Serbia, discussed  national mechanisms for ensuring a coherence of judicial practice that can contribute to a more effective adjudication of numerous issues stemming from the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the application of national legislation.

This round table took place in Belgrade, Serbia, and was organised within the framework of the Council of Europe Action entitled “Supporting Effective Remedies and Mutual Legal Assistance” which is being implemented in Serbia under the joint Council of Europe and the European Union programme entitled “Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey”.

Concept Paper and Agenda

Belgrade 6 July 2017
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Actions under theme I: Strengthening justice

*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.