Improving the role of court experts is important for the delivery of justice and the overall performance of the courts and prosecution service. An objective and unbiased expert evidence is one of the most important tools to be used in proving a case. It is therefore central to the role of court experts and to their ethical obligations that they maintain a high standard of professionalism and that they give a clear account of their opinion to enable judicial actors to reach an informed and independent judgment.

Echoing this stance, the Council of Europe has launched comprehensive expert support to the Association of Court Experts of Montenegro in developing appropriate legislative models for the reorganisation of court experts into the Chamber and for the revision of the Code of Ethics of Court Experts.

Improving legal and ethical frameworks that govern the work of court experts is expected to produce effects on the performance of the justice system from an efficiency, quality and access perspective, while enabling members of this legal professions to assume their role in more a accountable and transparent manner.

The support is being provided under the action "Accountability and professionalism in the judicial system of Montenegro" which is part of the joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe "Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022".