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Project: "Lviv regional centre for judicial studies"

Main idea of the project - creation of the centre in order to ensure permanent training of judges in Lviv. Lviv regional centre for judicial studies is a pattern of Ukrainian national system of judicial professional training, that holds training on the regional level. The main task of the centre is the organization of permanent professional training for judges of western region of Ukraine, information and methodical support of the training, coordination of the participation of judges in the seminars. Good technical equipment of the centre will allow to enlarge the access of judges to the modern training information Find information about of the activity of the Centre on the web-site: http://www.css.lviv.ua/
Duration of the project: 2002 - 2003 years.

Participants:
Supreme Court of Ukraine;
Court of Appeal of Lvivsky region;
The Council of Judges of Lvivsky region.

Project: "Regional centre for judicial studies of Ivano-Frankivsk"

Main idea of the project - creation of a specialized centre for judicial professional training in Ivano-Frankivsk.
The regional centre for judicial studies of Ivano-Frankivsk will become a pattern of Ukrainian national system of judicial professional training, that holds training on the regional level.
The main task of the centre is the organization of permanent professional training for judges of western region of Ukraine, information and methodical support of the training, coordination of the participation of judges in the seminars.
Good technical equipment of the centre will allow to enlarge the access of judges to the modern training information
Duration of the project: 2002 - 2003 years.

Participants:
The Supreme Court of Ukraine;
The Court of Appeal of Ivano-Frankivsky region.

Project: "Implementation of the probation elements in the criminal justice of Ukraine on the basis of municipal courts"

Aim of the project: mastering of the probation elements (prejudicial inquiry of the personality of the convicted for infliction of the most appropriate punishment, application of the alternative kinds of punishments (depending on the severity of a crime)) by the criminal-executive inspection of the State department of Ukraine for the execution of punishments, working out the ways and mechanisms of the implementation of the probation institute in Ukraine, support of the drafting of normative legal documents for the introduction of the alteration s in the criminal, criminal procedure and reformatory legislation, acquisition of experience and elaboration of recommendations for the representatives of the penitential system on its basis.

Participants:
The State Department of Ukraine for the execution of punishments
The Municipal court of Bila-Tserkva
The Municipal court of Yalta.

Project: "Judicial defense of the right on freedom and personal immunity according to the article 5 of the ECHR. Training -methodic practical work"

The aim of the project – elaboration of new technique concerning the practical application of art.5 of the ECHR in the judicial practice with the aim of promotion of the efficient defense of the rights on freedom and personal immunity in Ukraine.

Duration of the project: 2003 – 2004

Participants of the project:
Judges of the Supreme Court of Ukraine,
Judges of the courts of appeal of Lugansky and Ternopilsky regions,
Centre for Judicial Studies.

Released a new joint issue of the Bulletin Council of Judges of Ukraine and the Center for Judicial Studies devoted accessibility monitoring, effectiveness and impartiality of justice in Ukraine.