Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, with the support from OSCE mission in Serbia, has held first of 4 trainings in “Monitoring, research and specifics of criminal trials for criminal offences with elements of corruption” on Faculty of Law in Niš on 26 th of April 2016. Training is aimed at students of the final year at the Faculty of Law and students of master studies. It is organized as part of the project “Teaching students of law clinics to follow corruption trials”. The goal is to strengthen abilities of students of law clinics to follow corruption trials independently.
First part of the training was opened by Milan Antonijević, YUCOM’s director, who spoke about the goals of the project and previous YUCOM experiences in this area, and also about the legal nature of these trials. He was followed by Jasmina Stevanović, higher counsellor in the department for property control of officials at the Agency for Fighting Against Corruption, who introduced students with the process of reporting, and controlling property and income of the officials. Judge of the court of appeals in Nip, Dijana Janković, spoke about the nature of criminal offences with elements of corruption and the specifics of trials for these offences, from her own experience. In the second, practical part of the training, YUCOM’s researcher Jovana Spermo, talked about the significance and guidelines of monitoring trials for criminal offences with elements of corruption. Afterwards came the group work, where students analyzed particular cases and their reports.
Training was preceded by the signing of Memorandum of Cooperation Faculty of Law in Niš and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, which officiated the cooperation, and allowed students who passed this training successfully and participated in trials for criminal offences with elements of corruption, to use this experience as an evaluation for the test in their course of Clinical Law Education.
