Donor: Council of Europe (CoE)
Duration of the project: Jun 2005
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with CoE, organized seminar for private practising lawyers. This seminar took place in Belgrade from 16 to 18 June 2005. The participants were members of the legal professionals from various Serbian cities. The main goals of the seminar were to provide an introduction to the fundamental principles and concepts of the European Convention on Human Rights, European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) and Council of Europe; to examine key ECtHR principles and rights from the Convention with particular relevance to domestic legal provisions; to familiarize participants with the application of international human rights standards into domestic law and practice, focusing on jurisprudence of ECtHR and its relevance for domestic trials.The trainers were international and domestic experts: Pablo Pushkar, Lawyer, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, Evgueni Boev, Lawyer, Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, Vladan Joksimovic from CoE Office in Belgrade, Vesna Petrovic, Tatjana Papic and Bojan Djuric from BCHR, and Vida Petrovic-Škero, President of the Supreme Court of Serbia.
