Ownership

On 22 April 2016, Kosovo Judicial Institute in cooperation with the Council of Europe Office in Prishtina, through the Project on “Support to Implementation of the European Standard on Human Rights and Ombudsperson Institution Reform”, has conducted training on: “Ownership”.

The purpose of this training was to deepen the knowledge of judges on legislation in force and especially on how to handle the ownership law and its protection, due to the inherent problems in this area. This topic was important for judges because of the changes and legislative reforms as well requirements contained therein.

During the training were addressed the original and derivative ways on acquisition of ownership, novelties of the Law on Property and Other Real Rights regarding ways of acquiring ownership rights, authorizations and limitations of the owner and the registration of the ownership, accompanied by cases of judicial practice.

In general were also addressed the standards set by Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, associated with cases from the practice in the area of ​​ownership.

The training also focused on the elaboration of dilemmas appear in court practice regarding ways of acquiring ownership, with the special emphasis on acquisition of ownership based on prescription. Whereas, through comparative methods were elaborated the original derivative ways of obtaining ownership under the applicable law and other legal acts.

Beneficiaries of this training were judges of basic and appeal court, professional associates and legal officers from the Office of the Ombudsman