The Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights (YUCOM), with support from the OSCE mission in Serbia, held on 17 May 2016 the second of four ’Monitoring, Reporting and Specifics of Criminal Proceedings for Criminal Acts with Elements of Corruption’ trainings, at Human Rights House in Belgrade. The training is intended for final year undergraduate students and Masters students and is organized within the ’Strengthening Legal Clinic Students for Monitoring Corruption Trials’ project. The aim is to strengthen students of legal clinics at law faculties, but also other law students interested in this field, to independently monitor trails for criminal acts with corruptive elements.
Opening the first part of the training was Milan Antonijević, director of YUCOM, who talked about the aims of the project itself and the previous experiences of YUCOM in this area, as well as the legal nature of these proceedings. The following lecture was held by Biljana Sinanović, judge od the Supreme Court of Cassation, who familiarized students with the nature of criminal acts with elements of corruption and the specifics of presiding over court proceedings for these criminal acts. She also directed students towards things they should pay special attention to during the monitoring process.
Snežana Nenadić, Deputy Public Prosecutor at the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office, talked to students about the experiences and challenges public prosecutors face in prosecuting criminal acts with elements of corruption. The second part of her lecture focused on reporting to the public during criminal proceedings, where she talked about the challenges regarding replying to requests for information of public significance and relations with the police. In the second part of the training, Jovana Spremo, Researcher at YUCOM, talked to students about the significance of and guidelines for monitoring trials for criminal acts with elements of corruption. Following this was a group workshop, where students analyzed individual cases and the reports that stemmed from them.
The training was attended by 17 law students, who in the coming period will be monitoring trials for criminal acts with elements of corruption at the High Court in Belgrade and Special Department of the High Court for Organized Crime.
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