- Webinar on ‘Passengers rights on flights’, to take place on 4 February 2021
- Webinar on ‘Balancing the rights of the defendant and the victim – challenges and opportunities’ , to take place on 18 February 2021
- Webinar on ‘European Gender Equality Law’, to take place on 4 March 2021
- Webinar on ‘COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on refugees and asylums seekers’ , to take place on 18 March 2021
- Portfolio: Civil Law
Topic : ‘Passengers rights on flights’
Date/time : 4 February 2021, 13h-14h CET ( Brussels time)
Speaker : Jose Antonio Morales, Judge, Court of Appeal Las Palmas, Canary Islands
Moderator : Carolina Fons Rodríguez, Head of Area in the External and Institutional Relations Department, Judicial School of Spain
Content outline : European legal framework: Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights./ Interpretative Guidelines on Regulation (EC) No 261/2004/ The Court of Justice of the European Union and the rights of air passengers.
Target group : Civil Judges but not exclusively; prosecutors interested in the topic
Learning objectives : Upon the successful completion of this webinar, participants will achieve an overall picture of “passengers rights on flights” through an approach of the legal structure of the matter, the criteria dictated for its interpretation as well as the treatment of the CJEU on the matter in an understandable and summarized way in the established time.
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EJTN Contact : Daniel Graur daniel.graur@ejtn.eu
- Portfolio: Criminal Justice
Topic : ‘Balancing the rights of the defendant and the victim – challenges and opportunities’
Date/time: 18 February 2021, 13h-14h CET ( Brussels time)
Speaker: Svetoslava Koleva, Judge at Court of Appeal Varna, member of national network for international cooperation in criminal matters, lecturer at National Institute of Justice
Moderator: Angelina Lazarova, Judge, Varna Court of Appeal
Content outline: The webinar will explore how best to balance and enhance the rights of both victims and defendants to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of criminal proceedings.Balance between the rights of the defendant and the rights of victims of crime – competition or symbiosis in ensuring a fair trial? The answer to this question presented through the eyes of the legal practitioner, called upon to find modern solutions to the challenges to achieve this balance in an adversarial procedure.
Target group: Judges and prosecutors
Learning objectives: Upon the successful completion of this webinar, participants will be able to outline some of the key elements of fair trial in an attempt to help the criminal judge choose the procedural means appropriate to the particular case so as to ensure both the accused person and the victims the specific rights recognized to them by EU law and to avoid a breach of Article 6 of the ECHR. The practical importance and need for such training, especially focusing on protecting the victims’ rights is explicitly recognized and encouraged in the EU Strategy on victims rights (2020-2025), in line with the objectives of which is also the current webinar.
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EJTN Contact: Alina Secrieru Alina.Secrieru@ejtn.eu
- Portfolio: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Topic: European Gender Equality Law
Date/time: 4 March 2021, 13h-14h CET ( Brussels time)
Speaker: Cristina Cruz, Labour Judge, Trainer of Labour Law in the Judicial School in Lisbon, Portugal
Moderator: Fernando Duarte, Judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal of Lisbon
Content outline: Overwiew of EU gender equality legislation as interpreted by the CJEU (recent case law): Essential concepts of direct and indirect discrimination / Pregnancy and pay discrimination on grounds of sex in the context of employment and occupation / The principle of equal treatment between man and woman engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity
Target group: Judges, prosecutors and other members of the EU judiciary
Learning objectives: Upon the successful completion of this webinar, participants will be able to understand the scope of application of the Charter in the field of gender equality and the personal scope of protection in the gender equality Directives. Some Court of Justice of the European Union case law and European Court of Human Rights case law will be update.
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EJTN Contact: Arno Vinkovic arno.vinkovic@ejtn.eu
- Portfolio: Administrative Law
Topic: COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on refugees and asylums seekers’
Date/time: 18 March 2021, 13h-14h CET ( Brussels time)
Speaker: Catherine Koutsopoulou, Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens, Appeals Authority – Independent Appeals Committees and Vice President of the International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges -European Chapter (IARMJ-Global)
Moderator: Evgenia Papadopoulou, Senior Judge, Administrative Court of Appeal, Tripoli-Greece
Content outline: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic obliged Member State to take emergency measures in order to ensure public safety. These policies, consisted mainly of general measures on confinement and social distancing, had resulted in affecting people worldwide, among which, one of the most vulnerable groups, the refugees and the asylum seekers. As EU+ countries have been affected by COVID-19 to varying levels, measures implemented in response to the ‘force majeure’ in asylum and reception systems also differed in nature, intensity and scope in time. During the lunch webinar new tools and processes in asylum and reception systems since the COVID-19 outbreak will be explored. The expert will present their impact on the asylum applicants, their conformity with the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) acquis, and how Courts had tackled this new situation. She will also try to identify whether we are in the dawn of a new “asylum reality” and how this new reality can reinforce asylum seekers rights.
Target group: Administrative and Civil Judges, but not exclusively
Learning objectives: Upon the successful completion of this webinar, participants will be able of analysing problems posed by the application of the emergency measures and identifying good practices for a future asylum policy.
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EJTN contact: Giulia Carpentieri Giulia.Carpentieri@ejtn.eu