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26-03-2019

Damage compensation

On March 25 2019, Academy of Justice within the trainings for free professions with the request of the Free Legal Aid Agency and with the support of UNDP conducted training on Damage Compensation.

Purpose of this training was correct implementation of the Law on Obligations and establishment of best practices in provision of the free legal aid in cases of requests for damage compensation.

This training elaborated on basic concepts of the Law on Obligations focusing on the cause of damage, damage caused by dangerous means, damage caused by unlawful activity, types of damage compensation, civil liability and the grounds for liability for material and non-material damage as well as the criteria for determination of the damage. Attention was paid to analysis of the case by legal aid providers in these cases, and drafting of requests for damage compensation, including elements that this request shall contain. In this training it was discussed about the most frequent cases in the courts practice and of the agency, giving examples and necessary explanations on the ways how to proceed in order to make the damage compensation claims successful.

Beneficiaries of this training were officials of the Free Legal Aid Agency from all regions of Kosovo, to include participants from NGO’s like CRPK, CLARD, NORMA and Active Women of Gjakova.

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