Initial hearing, second hearing and main trial

On January 18 2018, Academy of Justice within the CTP conducted training on the “Initial hearing, second hearing and the main trial”.

This training aimed to enhance the professional skills of beneficiaries for correct implementation of specific procedures related to the initial hearing, second hearing and the judicial trial, backing the efficient implementation of the criminal proceeding.

This training included elaboration of the initial hearing and the second hearing, timelines for setting the initial hearing after admission of the indictment and the second hearing, actions of the presiding judge or of the single trial judge and the flow of the initial hearing and the second hearing.

It was initially elaborated on the criteria in cases of plea bargaining, options after plea bargaining in the initial hearing, and cases of separation of the procedure when there are more than one defendants and some of them plea bargain in the initial hearing and some of them don’t. The training focused also on the main trial, as one of the most important stages of the criminal procedure, stages of the judicial hearing, duties and actions of the presiding judges and of the single trial judge in the judicial hearing, as well as intermission and postponing of the judicial hearing.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges and prosecutors from all regions of Kosovo.