The EJTN successful project ‘ 1 hour Lunchtime Webinars: 1 topic – 1 expert – 1 hour – unlimited questions’ continues after the summer break , starting on Thursday September 8.
Information on the 8 webinars from Administrative Law, Civil Law, Criminal Justice, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Linguistics, Judicial Training Methods portfolios, planned to take place September-December 2022 can be found below, as well as with attached visuals. (Open here)
As you will see , some of the upcoming webinars will address topics related to the situation in Ukraine.
The webinars are composed of a short introduction and a 30-minute expert presentation followed by a Q&A session and take place on Thursday, bi-weekly, at 1 pm – 2 pm Brussels time, on the Microsoft Teams platform.
There is no selection process, nor national quota foreseen.
NEW since 2022: Open registration, evaluation and certificates of participation
Open registration on OSP will allow us to gather some data for our reports. The MS Teams link to join each webinar will be sent via OSP to registered participants.
Participants are invited to use their names from the OSP registration when joining the webinar on Teams. This way, we can identify them when sending them the evaluation form of the webinar and certificate of participation via OSP.
For all questions in relation to lunchtime webinars please contact Mr. Rasmus Van Heddeghem rasmus.van.heddeghem@ejtn.eu
- LW/2022/15 on 8 September 2022
Topic: Probation measures – a penalty or alternative measures?
Speaker: Prof. PhD Iva Pushkarova, Professor Criminal Law and International Criminal Law at Sofia University and in the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior Academy, Researcher at the Justice Development Foundation, Author and Publicist
Moderator: Petra Wagner, Senior Public Prosecutor at the Office of the Prosecutor’s General in Munich, Germany
Date: 8 September 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Criminal Law
Content: The webinar will address three topics:
- General description of the regimes of probation measures as a penalty to a crime and as an alternative to the penalty
- Notion of penalty under the practice of the ECtHR. Basic standards for distinguishing penalties from non-penal measures. Standards for judicial imposition and individualisation of penalties and non-penal measures
- Complications arising from ambiguous legislative or judicial practice and differences between national jurisdictions
Main target group: Judges, prosecutors, people involved in the execution of penalties, probation officers.
Learning outcomes: After the webinar the participants will have a general description of the regimes of probation measures as a penalty to a crime and as an alternative to the penalty as handled within the EU, as well as basic human-rights standards for distinguishing penalties from non-penal measures. Participants will be sensitised to practical issues and complications arising from ambiguous legislative or judicial practice and differences between national jurisdictions and be aware of the effects probation measures might have on our societies.
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/16 on 22 September 2022
Topic: Taking account of human rights while prosecuting crimes during the war in Ukraine
Speaker: Jeremy McBride, member of the Council of Europe expert advisory group for support
to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Barrister at Monckton Chambers in London
Moderator: Claudia Weisbart, Hessian Ministry of Justice, Germany,
Convener of the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Sub-Working Group
Date: 22 September 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Content: The webinar will address the mission and working methods of the Council of Europe’s Advisory Group to support the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and concentrates on the problematic issues which have arisen when faced with a huge volume of crimes committed in the course of the war and on how the risk of challenges to convictions resulting from them can be dealt with or at least mitigated.
Main target group: Judges and prosecutors.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the webinar, participants will
– appreciate the challenges that armed conflict can pose for the operation of criminal justice systems
– gain a better understanding of the value of observing human rights requirements even in difficult situations
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/17 on 6 October 2022
Topic: United in diversity: Intercultural issues at play in communication across the EU
Speaker: Eva Samaniego Fernández, Lecturer in legal English and legal translation, National Distance Education University (UNED). Trainer in legal English for EJTN, ERA, Eurojust/EJN and the Spanish Council of the Judiciary
Moderator: Skaistė Gataveckaitė-Kiauzarienė, National Courts Administration Lithuania
Date: 6 October 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Linguistics
Content: The webinar will focus on culture-related issues that underlie all communication (including non-verbal communication) and how to try to avoid misunderstandings when communicating.
Main target group: Judges, prosecutors, court staff, mediators and other law-related professions.
Learning outcomes:
– Being aware of the cultural differences across the EU;
– Becoming familiar with the concepts of “politeness” (the way in which language is used to create and uphold interpersonal relationships), “pragmatics” (hidden meaning in communication), “kinesics” (the role of physical movement and gestures in communication), “proxemics” (the communicative role of personal space), …
– Being familiar of the necessary resources to avoid judging other people’s behaviour and communicative style through the eyes of our own culture.
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/18 on 20 October 2022
Topic: How Judges Can Build a Resilient Mindset
Speaker: Emma J. Bell, Audible bestselling author, multi-award winning Speaker, Resilience Expert, and Coach.
Moderator: Philip Rostant, Judge, Judicial Academy United Kingdom
Date: 20 October 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Judicial Training Methods
Content: Resilience is an increasingly important quality for judges to display, especially when court/tribunal hearing time is constrained, case lists become longer and party litigants are appearing more frequently. Emma J. Bell (herself a former UK Employment Judge) dedicated three years of her life to researching what makes us resilient. That research ultimately took her on a journey of over 35,000 miles to interview fifty ‘Thrivers’ from around the world who have face extreme challenge and change – and who are not just surviving, but thriving. Despite a variety of circumstances, they each credit their ability to flourish in the face of adversity to just nine resilience strategies. In this workshop Emma will share 5 mental resilience practices essential to support judges to thrive in the face of increasing pressures
Main target group: Judges.
Learning outcomes: After the workshop, the participants will have learned 5 immediately applicable strategies to build mental resilience, especially when under pressure.
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/19 on 3 November 2022
Topic: The right to access to environmental information
Speaker: Heloísa Oliveira, Professor at the University of Lisbon, school of Law.
Moderator: Fernando Duarte, Administrative Court of Appeal of Oporto and Trainer at the Judicial School of Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 3 November 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Administrative Law
Content: The webinar aims at analysing the right to access to environmental information as a person’s right to accurate information related to the environment.
Main target group: Administrative Judges
Learning outcomes: By the end of this webinar participants will be able to understand the delimitation of the content of the right to access to environmental information.
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/20 on 17 November
Topic: Protection of children from Ukraine in the EU
Speaker: Martina Erb-Klünemann, family court judge at a German court specialized in international family law and network judge (EJN and IHNJ)
Moderator: Florence Borcy, Attaché affaires internationals and lawyer at the Belgian judicial training institute
Date: 17 November 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Civil Law
Content: Because of the war many refugee children from Ukraine arrive in the EU. Questions of international jurisdiction and applicable law need to be answered when courts in the EU are asked to protect these children. The webinar answers these questions and hints at possibilities of judicial cooperation.
Main target group: Judges, lawyers, youth protection authorities
Learning outcomes: Overview of the applicable EU-Regulations (Brussels IIb and Brussels IIa) and international instruments (1996 Hague Child Protection Convention) and their relationship with national law in questions of child protection
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/21 on 1 December 2022
Topic: War crimes in Ukraine and international crises of refugees
Speaker: Webinar by the prosecutor of the division crimes against humanity, crimes and war crimes of the French National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office
Moderator: Emmanuelle Laudic-Baron, Magistrate Prosecutor, chargée de mission – Département International Project manager – International Department Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature
Date: 1 December 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Criminal Law
Content: The webinar will focus on the prosecution of various offences qualified as war crimes and on the displacement of refugees.
Main target group: Criminal judges and prosecutors.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the webinar the participants will be able
– to identify the different offences
– to improve knowledge about the evidence of war crimes and refugee status
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP
- LW/2022/22 on 15 December 2022
Topic: Racial minorities in context: ECHR more relevant Jurisprudence
Speaker: Lidia María Paloma Montaño, Judge in the criminal court number 2 of Alcobendas (Madrid). Author of different investigation books for police officers. Member of the European Judicial Network. Member of the Expert Team for the drafting of the guide of Pharmacrime 4. Speaker in several International Forums about International Judicial Cooperation.
Moderator: Carolina Fons, Doctor in Law, Head of External and Institutional Relations of the Spanish Judicial School
Date: 15 December 2022, 13h-14h Brussels time
Portfolio: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Content: A practical approach to the racial minorities in order to give them the legal protection under the light of the European Court Human of Rights interpretation and sentences. We will also analize discrimination on this matters.
Main target group: Judges and prosecutors
Learning outcomes: By the end of the webinar, participants will have learned the judicial perspective that the European Court Human of Rights gives in the recent cases where the racial minorities rights have been questioned.
OSP link for registration below (registered participants will receive MS Teams link to join the webinar):
Click here for the Open Registration on OSP