Publications

The Newsletter highlights the activities of the OSCE Office in Yerevan for the period of January- July 2016.

This volume of decisions by Armenia's Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation for 2015 comprises legal review, analysis and interpretations of selected decisions that paved the ground for ensuring predictable justice and for creating legal mechanisms for the effective protection of human rights. The publication prepared with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan and in partnership with the Armenian Cassation Court has been issued annually since 2008. It serves as a useful tool and resource for criminal law experts and aims to strengthen judicial independence and integrity. The publication is available in Armenian only.

The analysis represents a joint contribution of the Association of Public Prosecutors and the Rule of Law Unit of OSCE Mission to Skopje towards the process of establishing a standardized criminal policy and practice in the criminal justice system. The very analysis processes data which refer to plea agreements made in the four appeal districts: Bitola, Gostivar, Skopje and Shtip, in the period from 1stof December until 31st of March 2015.

The publication presents the results of "Research on Gender Discrimination in the Professional Environment of Advocates and Judges" based on the analysis of questionnaires filled in April- June 2015 by the participants of the trainings on the application of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. The publication offers an overview of existing legal framework, with emphasis on key international legal acts and laws of Ukraine on ensuring gender equality and non-discrimination. It also presents analysis of the forms of statistical reporting with regard to availability of gender-segregated data and national courts’ practice in cases on gender discrimination; it also outlines relevant case-law of the European Court of Human Right. The publication provides recommendations for judges and advocates on implementation of the principle of gender equality in their work. This publication is not available in English.

This policy paper was produced by a working group led by the OSCE Presence in Albania with the participation of officials of the Ministry of Justice, General Directorate of Prisons, Probation Service, and the European Union Tweeting Project on the Penitentiary System.

This report provides an overview of the implementation of the new Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) that entered into force on 1 January 2013 together with other legislation reforming the Kosovo justice system. The CPC introduced major changes to criminal proceedings in Kosovo, solidifying a shift from the primarily inquisitorial system in place prior to 2003—and largely still in effect between 2003 and 2012—to a system principally characterized as an adversarial one.

This publication represents a compilation of presentations and materials following the international conference on “Property Right: European Experience and Ukrainian Realities”, held in Kyiv on 22-23 October 2015 and organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine jointly with the Supreme Court of Ukraine, EU Project “Support to Justice Sector Reforms in Ukraine”, and the Law Faculty of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, as part of the OSCE project “Safeguarding Human Rights through Courts” funded by the Government of Canada. The publication is not available in English.

This publication covers important issues of establishment, current state and further development of human rights protection in administrative justice of Ukraine, with due consideration to the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols, the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and international experience. The results of the corresponding research are directed at uniform application of law by the courts in the sphere of public law, strengthening of the rule of law and fair justice. The publication is designed for judges, prosecutors, advocates, scientists, professors, postgraduates and students of law schools, government agencies’ officials and local authorities, as well as for all those interested in the protection of human rights and administrative justice. Materials of international scientific conference. Kyiv, 1–2 October 2015. The publication is not available in English.

The monograph analyzes the genesis, modern state and ways of further development of administrative justice in Ukraine. The results of the study help to promote uniform application of the law in courts in the sphere of public law, strengthen rule of law and fair administration of justice when protecting constitutional rights, freedoms and interests of a human and citizen. For judges, prosecutors, advocates, scientists, professors, postgraduates and students of law schools and all those interested in administrative justice. This publication is not available in English.

The publication was prepared for a series of trainings for Ukrainian judges of courts of common jurisdiction on application of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), within the project "Safeguarding Human Rights through Courts" implemented by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine with the financial support of the Government of Canada. This edition presents the main provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and explains them through the prism of the ECtHR’s case-law. This publication is not available in English.