EUROPEAN BEST PRACTICES OF JUSTICE INSPECTION, HIJ STAFF TRAINING

The team of Inspectors, Assistant Inspectors and the Cabinet of the High Inspector of Justice Office completed the two-day training on “Judicial inspections, good practices by the European Inspectorates of Justice”.

In his welcoming remarks at the beginning of the training session, appreciating the organization, High Inspector of Justice Artur Metani said that the inspection today requires a new mentality and that every experience serves everyone’s work.

CEPEJ Coordinator Roland Gjoni presented the role of the SEJ III project and the purpose of the training, while the Cooperation Program Coordinator of the European Justice Inspection Network (RESIJ), Delphine Agoguet, also Inspector of the General Inspectorate of Justice in France, spoke about the professional capacities growth through the RESIJ Network and the cooperation initiated by this network with the High Inspector of Justice of Albania.

During the two day-training four magistrate inspectors, Delphine Agoguet and Sylvie Merges, from the General Inspectorate of Justice, France; Emanuela Aliverti from the Inspectorate of Justice, Italy and Nicoleta Rhfir from the Judicial Inspectorate, Romania presented two working modules, on the principles of General Inspection and the methodology of Inspection instruments, the procedures and reports.

The focus of the first training day was the classic inspection missions, the status and ethics of inspectors, the principles and methods of inspection, European and international standards of inspections.

The discussions on the second day centered on specific cases on the inspection of courts and prosecutors’ offices, the management of this process, the available instruments and the institutional support, all of which were illustrated with case studies of good practice.

This training organized by the High Inspector of Justice in cooperation with the SEJ III project of the Council of Europe launches the cooperation with the European Inspection Network through its members from European Union countries. In this case, there were experts as well as heads of Inspection institutions from Romania, Portugal and France, who paid a three-day working visit to Albania.