Drafting legal acts in the minor offence procedure

On March 15 2019, Academy of Justice within the trainings for free professions, upon the request of the Free Legal Aid Agency and with the support of UNDP conducted a training on the topic of “Drafting legal acts in the minor offence procedure”. 

Purpose of this training was to implement correctly the Law on Minor offences and establishment of best practices in the free legal aid provision for such cases by officials of the free legal aid.

This training elaborated on basic concepts for determining an offence as minor offence as well as other issues like: principles that shall be implemented, minor offence reliability (liability and unaccountability), legal remedies (regular and extraordinary), reasons for filing legal acts, as well as essential violations. Also, particular emphasis was paid on the procedure upon appeal knowing that a large number of appeals coming in court are drafted by officials of the legal aid. Also, advices were provided on how to act in this procedure and what are the best practices in drafting the acts.

In the afternoon part of the training, participants were divided in four groups to demonstrate the skills for drafting acts in 4 different hypothetical situations: drafting appeal in cases of essential violations; violation of the material law; the wrong or incomplete proving of the factual state; as well as cases of appealing against the height of the imposed sanction.

In the presentation of the work in groups, participants could show their experience using their knowledge that obtained in the first session of their trainings and their experience concluding correctly the tasks that were assigned.

Particular attention was paid to practical cases of the Free Legal Agency officials in elaborating cases of the minor offence procedure and addressing solutions in compliance with legal provisions.

Beneficiaries of this training were officials of the Free Legal Aid Agency from all regions. Participants in the training were representatives of the NGO’s like CRPK, CLARD, NORMA and Active Women of Gjakova.