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This set of handbooks, aimed for practitioners, provide information on international private law in family matters and international private law in successions.
The Guide to preliminary ruling proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union aims to make practical suggestions based on experience acquired in the Netherlands. It provides general information as well as suggestions as to when and how to refer a case to the Court.
These guidelines provide information related to the role, views, rights and needs of the child in judicial proceedings and in alternative procedures.
Guidelines on child focussed justice before, during and after judicial proceedings, developed by the Council of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates (IAYFJM).
This handbook summarises the key European legal principles in the area of access to justice, focusing on civil and criminal law.
This Handbook is a guidance on the treatment of children recruited and exploited by terrorist and violent extremist groups, with emphasis on the role of the justice system.
This training material provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks in the field of data protection.
The handbook provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, it presents hypothetical scenarios that serve as practical illustrations of the diverse issues encountered in this ever-evolving field.
This handbook provides an overview of the law applicable to asylum, border man-agement and immigration in relation to European Union (EU) law and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It looks at the situation of those foreigners to whom the EU usually refers as third-country nationals, although that distinction is not relevant to cited ECHR law. This handbook is designed to assist legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of asylum, borders and immigration law; it is intended for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, border guards, immigration officials and others working with national authorities, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other bodies that may be confronted with legal questions relating to these subjects.
The handbook is intended for lawyers, judges, prosecutors, border guards, immigration officials and others working with national authorities, as well as national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations and other bodies that may be confronted with legal questions in the areas covered.
This handbook aims to illustrate how European law and case law accommodate the specific interests and needs of children. Children are full-fledged holders of rights. They are beneficiaries of all human and fundamental rights and subjects of special regulations, given their specific characteristics.
This handbook is designed for non-specialist legal professionals, judges, public prosecutors, child protection authorities, and other practitioners and organisations responsible for ensuring the legal protection of the rights of the child. It explains key jurisprudence, summarising major rulings of both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
European non-discrimination law, as constituted in particular by the EU non-discrimination directives, and Article 14 of and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibits discrimination across a range of contexts and grounds. This handbook examines European non-discrimination law stemming from these two sources as complementary systems, drawing on them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where these exist.
This handbook provides information on victim support programmes and for developing victim-sensitive policies, procedures and protocols for criminal justice agencies and others who come into contact with victims. It outlines the basic steps in developing comprehensive support services for victims of crime, such as crisis or long-term counselling, compensation, accompaniment to court and other advocacy services. The handbook is not intended to be prescriptive but to serve as a set of examples for jurisdictions to examine and test.
This HELP course on Business and Human Rights is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals in the European Union member states (HELP in the EU) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. This course is addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers). It aims at enabling legal professionals to understand the relationship between business and human rights, the international frameworks that govern this interaction and the duties and responsibilities that are in turn imposed upon businesses. The course will provide expert led education to increase awareness that all businesses, not just states, have an explicit role in the realization of human rights through a worldwide responsibility to respect them and implement best practice.
This HELP course on Child-friendly Justice is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals in the European Union member states (HELP in the EU) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. The Council of Europe (CoE) has developed many legal standards and practical guidelines in the field of child-friendly justice. This entails creating a justice system, which guarantees respect for and the effective implementation of all children’s rights. The implementation of these guidelines, and other aspects of child-friendly justice, is a key priority. Therefore, this course aims at strengthening and harmonising the knowledge of the relevant ECHR and other European standards on child-friendly justice across the CoE member States.
This HELP course on combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) of the Council of Europe (CoE) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. This course is primarily addressed to legal professionals (criminal judges, prosecutors, lawyers or senior court staff) and law enforcement and other state authorities as well as NGOs dealing with individuals affected by trafficking in human beings. It is designed to equip practitioners to effectively apply the standards developed under the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (the CoE Convention) in their daily work. Besides the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, the course explores the case law of the European Court of Human Rights as well as other international legal instruments and national good practices, always focusing on the protection of the victims of human trafficking.
This HELP course on Data Protection and Privacy Rights is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP), with EU financial support, aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. This course aims at providing a comprehensive curriculum, which covers in an interactive way the key concepts, the legal framework of the CoE and the EU (directly applicable at national level), the case-law or the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and specific areas of data protection. It is primarily addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers, senior court staff).
This HELP course on Family Law and Human Rights is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (notably with EU financial support) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. This course has been jointly financed by the European Union-Council of Europe "HELP in the EU" project and the European Union-Council of Europe Horizontal Facility Action "Strengthening the Human Rights Ombudsman to fight discrimination”, in cooperation with the Council of Europe Children’s Rights Division. It is addressed to legal professionals (judges, prosecutors, lawyers). The course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of International and European family law related standards, case-law and good practices. It discusses and analyses the influence of human rights law, notably Articles 8 (private and family life) and 12 (right to marriage) of the ECHR on national family law.
This HELP course on Human Rights in Sports is part of a series of courses created by the European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) aiming to support legal professionals and to enhance their capacities to effectively and coherently apply European fundamental rights standards at the national level. The complexity of the question in the field of sports and its increasing popularity leads to an increase of the number of sport-related legal disputes. Disputes are often of a general criminal, administrative or civil nature, with the added specificity of sport, including short deadlines and criminal groups extending wider than simply the athletes. These disputes are adjudicated by national courts as well as by special sport tribunals. The questions on the application of the procedural safeguards enshrined in Article 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in such proceedings have been raised before the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR).The course has been developed jointly with the Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department of the Council of Europe, with the collaboration of MGIMO University. It aims at increasing the awareness of human rights and related legal issues in the field of sport among legal professionals and specialists involved into sport and at assisting legal professionals to apply the related domestic and international law standards in the field of human rights in sports in their daily work.