On April 5 2018, Academy of Justice within its Continuous Training Program conducted a training on Witness Protection.
Purpose of this training was to extend the participants knowledge, through discussions, presentation of best practices and elaboration on dilemmas, on how to contribute to efficient protection of witnesses during the court proceeding.
This training focused on protection of witnesses as a special category that are stipulated in the Criminal Procedure Code of Kosovo, and in the Law on Witness Protection, and present important category in the criminal proceeding.
Primary attention was paid to examples from the case law, where in most of the cases the damaged parties and witnesses do not testify due to the feeling of risk for their health, lives and for their family members. Therefore, in criminal proceedings, protection of witnesses shall be paid the right caution, in order they do not suffer any intrusion or eventual inconveniences from external and internal instances.
Beneficiaries of this training were judges of the basic instance courts of different regions of Kosovo.
05-04-2018