Strengthening integrity and ethical standards both in the judicial and prosecutorial system was the aim of two roundtables, organized on May 29 and 30, 2024, by the Council of Europe Office in Chisinau, in partnership with the National Institute of Justice.
The trainees of the National Institute of Justice participated on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in the public lesson on the subject of legal writing and reasoning. The expertise was shared by Canadian judges J. C. Marc Richard, Chairman of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and Martel D. Popescul, President of the King's Court (King’s Bench) for Saskatchewan.
On Monday, May 27, 2024, at the State University of Moldova (SUM) took place the bilateral meeting between the Ad interim Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Adrian Cerbu, and the Rector of the SUM, Igor Sarov.
A delegation of the Federal Ministry of Justice from the Federal Republic of Germany, conducted by Benjamin Strasser, parliamentary state secretary, is, these days, on an official visit to Chisinau. On Thursday, 23 May 2024, accompanied by H.E. Margaret Maria Uebber, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Moldova, had a meeting with the Ad interim Director of the National Institute of Justice, Adrian Cerbu, and Olga Marandici, advisor to the Director of the NIJ, head of the International Relations Section.
Today, May 23, 2024, at the National Institute of Justice, the President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Siofra O'Leary, held a public lesson, which was attended by NIJ trainees and trainers, as well as by other representatives of the legal system and experts in the field. The topic of the event was Protocol No. 16 to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), which entered into force in the Republic of Moldova on October 1, 2023, thus marking a significant step in strengthening the protection of fundamental rights in our country.
