NIJ trainees attend the second edition of the Spring School of Human Rights

14. 03. 2019

Between 14 and 15 March 2019, the NIJ trainees, candidates to the position of judge and prosecutor, are attending the Spring School entitled "Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights - remedies/premises for strengthening the legal reasoning process of the national judgments". The human rights training activity is at its second edition, carried out according to the National Institute of Justice's Initial Training Plan for candidates to the position of judge and prosecutor.

The event is taking place in Vadul lui Voda and was opened by greeting messages and general introduction to the training program by the Director of the National Institute of Justice, Diana Scobioala, and by the European Union experts - Katya Dormisheva and Kerry Lamberg.

For two days, the candidates to the position of judge and prosecutor will be initiated in the field of protection of human rights by the NIJ trainers: Diana Scobioala, doctor habilitatus in International Law, NIJ Director, Boris Talpa, head of the The Centre for Legal Information, seconded judge, Dumitru Obada, advisor to the NIJ Director, seconded Prosecutor, Alexandra Nica, head of the Training and Research Department, Olga Doru, doctor in Law, Valentin Rosca, doctor in Law, and Ion Chirtoaca, seconded judge. 

The trainees will have ECHR advanced thematic sessions: inter-state applications in the light of ECtHR case law, the right to respect for privacy in the context of special investigative activity, the protection of human rights in armed conflicts, entrapment in the context of the ECHR, the protection of human rights online, etc.

As a result of interactive training activities, the participants, divided into seven groups each guided by a tutor, will draw up and present court judgments on the basis of some cases with direct reference to the relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

The Spring School is organized within the framework of the European Union Project "Support to the Efficient Prevention and Fight against Corruption in the Justice Sector".