“Juveniles and Justice. Training of the magistrates for effective carrying out of trials with participation of persons under the age of 18”

Project: “Juveniles and Justice. Training of the magistrates for effective carrying out of trials with participation of persons under the age of 18"
Duration: 1.08.2006 – 1.04.2006
Partners: Association of Judges in Bulgaria; Clinic for forensic psychology and forensic psychiatry
Financial recourses: The American agency for international development
Main goal: to increase the effectiveness of the Bulgarian courts in adoption of the European and World standards in judiciary for juvenile offenders.
Objectives:
- To increase specialization of them judges, carrying out cases of juvenile offenders.
- To adopt in the school programme of the National Institute of Justice a specialized program for judge training.
- To publish and spread out a specialized edition for judges, working on cases involving juveniles.
Results:
- Developed method of a program for education;
- Implemented 3 education seminars;
- Educated 69 judges;
- Analysis reports by modules, prepared by the lectors;
- Prepared and disseminated “и разпространен “Manual of the judge for working on cases including minors”.