{"id":20724,"date":"2024-03-20T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crjm.org\/?p=20724"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:28:13","slug":"more-than-200-judges-prosecutors-and-lawyers-attended-training-on-recent-changes-in-criminal-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crjm.org\/en\/more-than-200-judges-prosecutors-and-lawyers-attended-training-on-recent-changes-in-criminal-procedure\/20724\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 judges, prosecutors and lawyers attended training on recent changes in criminal procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From 19 February to 19 March 2024, the Legal Resources Centre from Moldova (LRCM) together with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), with the financial support of the Soros Foundation Moldova, organised 10 joint seminars for justice professionals. The need for these trainings arose from the amendments adopted in 2023 to the Criminal Procedure Code, such seminars providing the right framework for discussing novelties.<\/strong><\/p>

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The trainers of the training course were lawyers, prosecutors and judges who were part of the working group that contributed to the drafting of the proposals to amend the Criminal Procedure Code. The participants in the seminars had the opportunity to get to know the essence of the amendments and to analyse the ways proposed to make criminal procedure more efficient.<\/p>

\u201cLegislative novelties are important, but what matters is their honest implementation in practice, which is why the LRCM brings together justice professionals \u2013 lawyers, prosecutors, judges \u2013 who are to apply the provisions of the new Criminal Procedure Code in practice,\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong> said Ilie Chirtoac\u0103, Executive Director of LRCM.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The main topics discussed during the training concerned the competence of the National Anticorruption Centre and specialised prosecutors\u2019 offices, access of the injured party to criminal investigation materials, preliminary hearing, hearing by teleconference, and the grounds of appeal against decisions of the courts of appeal. Judges, prosecutors and lawyers also took note of the novelties on special investigative activity, audio\/video recording of criminal investigation actions, inadmissibility of appeals, and extraordinary remedies in criminal procedure.<\/p>

\u201cFor us lawyers, such training courses are very useful, as they bring together several specialists from different legal fields to share their experience. We are also informed about new legislative changes,\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong> mentioned lawyer Svetlana Onici, who attended one of the trainings.<\/p><\/blockquote>

\u201cGiven the rather wide-ranging changes in criminal procedure, meetings with professionals are useful to discuss, first of all, the idea and the spirit of these changes, so that it is clear where the legislator started from and where he wanted to end up,\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong> concluded Eugeniu Be\u0219elea, judge at the Chi\u0219in\u0103u District Court, one of the trainers involved in the seminars.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Justice professionals can access three explanatory videos (available in Romanian with Russian subtitles) reflecting the most important novelties in criminal procedure: (1) how to ensure better respect for human rights in criminal procedure<\/a><\/strong>, (2) how to ensure effective access to prosecution material<\/a><\/strong>, and (3) how to simplify the procedure for examining a criminal case in court<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>

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The training series was organised in the framework of the project \u201cSafeguarding human rights through a more transparent and accountable criminal justice system\u02ee, implemented by the LRCM with the financial support of the Soros Foundation Moldova. The views and opinions expressed at the event do not necessarily coincide with those of the Soros Foundation Moldova.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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