On September 28 2017, Academy of Justice in cooperation with the EU Twinning project on “Further Support to Legal Education Reform”, conducted training for mentors of the criminal law area who are engaged as mentors for newly appointed judges.
Purpose of this training was to familiarize men-tors with mentoring techniques, their role and tasks as mentors, as well as adequate forms of their approach in relation with newly appointed judges.
This training initially presented the structure of the Initial Training Program with emphasis on its practical part, rules and standards that are set on the Mentors Handbook. Ways of organi-zation and implementation of this process, as well as role and duties of mentors in relation with newly appointed judges and the Academy of Justice.
It was further elaborated in details on mentor-ing component as a process, then duties and responsibilities of mentors in assisting newly appointed judges, and ways and best practices on how to transfer professional knowledge and practical experiences to the judges under their mentorship. Also, this training discussed on main principles of case flow management and introduced best practices of case management with the aim of transferring them to the newly appointed judges.
Mentors were informed and equipped with nec-essary documents for ITP liker the Initial Training Program Regulation, the Initial Train-ing Program, the Mentors Handbook, etc.
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