Announcements

Announcements of Events organized by Serbian Association for Criminal Law and Practice

57th Annual Conference of Serbian Association for Criminal Law and Practice "Reform Processes and Chapter 23 (One Year Later) - Criminal–Legal Aspect"

Zlatibor 21-23 September, 2017

Serbian Association for Criminal Law and Practice, OSCE Mission to Serbia and Judicial Academy are organizing 57th Annual Conference of Serbian Association for Criminal Law and Practice "Reform Processes and Chapter 23 (One Year Later) - Criminal–Legal Aspect". Full Conference Program can be downloaded HERE.

  • PROGRAM of 57th Annual Congress of Serbian Association for Criminal Law and Practice "ACCUSATION AND OTHER CRIMINAL-LEGAL INSTRUMENTS OF STATE REACTION TO CRIME"
  • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 2017, Congress Center “ROMANIJA”
  • 10:00-12:00 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE, GREETING SPEECHES AND INTRODUCTORY LECTURES
  • 10:00-10:20 Opening of the Conference
  • Greeting Speeches
    1. Nela KUBUROVIĆ, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia
    2. Dragomir MILOJEVIĆ, President of Supreme Court of Cassation (JUDICIARY REFORM AND CHAPTER 23)
    3. Arthur GRAHAM, Chief of Department for rule of law and human rights of OSCE Mission to Serbia
    4. Walter PERKEL, Legal Advisor of SAD Embassy in Serbia
    5. Nenad VUJIĆ, Director of Judiciary Academy
  • 10:20-12:00 INTRODUCTORY LECTURES
    1. Chapter 23 and action plan – planned, fulfilled and fore coming activities
      -Čedomir BACKOVIĆ, Assistant of the Minister of Justice – Sector for European integrations
    2. Reform of substantial criminal legislation and Chapter 23 (at the crossroads between national identity and European integrations)
      -Professor Dragana KOLARIĆ, PhD, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia
    3. Reform of procedural criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia and Chapter 23 (the need to continue working on the reform or finished reform process?)
      -Professor Milan ŠKULIĆ, PhD, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law
  • 12:00-12:30 COCKTAIL
  • 12:30-14:00 SESSIONS AND LECTURES OF PARTICIPANTS
    1. In search for the lost truth
      -Jovan ĆIRIĆ, PhD, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia
    2. Conditional release – norm, practice and measures of improvement
      -Ivana STEVANOVIĆ, PhD; Nikola VUJIČIĆ, Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade
    3. The victim of criminal offence (Chapter 23 – norms and practice in Serbia)
      -Milica KOLAKOVIĆ-BOJOVIĆ, PhD, Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade
    4. The principle of non-punishment of the victims of human trafficking
      -Professor Milan ŽARKOVIĆ, PhD, Academy of Criminalistics and Police Studies, Belgrade
    5. New incriminations and their compatibility with other provisions of Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia
      -Professor Đorđe ĐORĐEVIĆ, PhD, Academy of Criminalistics and Police Studies, Belgrade
    6. Warnings and admonitions in penal law of the Republic of Srpska
      -Professor LJubinko MITROVIĆ, PhD, Ombudsperson for Human Rights of BiH
  • 14:00-16:00 LUNCH BREAK
  • 16:00-19:00 AFTERNOON SESSIONS
  • ROUND TABLE „CONDITIONAL RELEASE – NORM, PRACTICE AND MEASURES OF IMPROVEMENT“ Moderator: Ivana STEVANOVIĆ, PhD, Director of the of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade
  • LECTURES OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. Violation of the principle of lawfulness as the consequence of limited acting of courts of second degree
      -Dragan JOCIĆ, President of the Court of Appeal in Niš
    2. Illegal production, keeping, carrying and trade of weapons and explosive substances in theory and practice
      -Saša MARKOVIĆ, PhD, Executive Officer of Police Police Office in Valjevo
    3. Offence of minor importance and the principle of opportunity of criminal prosecution (norm and practice)
      -Professor Emir ĆOROVIĆ, PhD, State University in Novi Pazar; Associate Professor Veljko TURANJANIN, PhD University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law; Aladin ŠEMOVIĆ, PhD, Higher Court in Novi Pazar
    4. Fulfilled and unfulfilled obligations in accordance with the Istanbul Convention
      -Veljko DELIBAŠIĆ, PhD, Lawyer in Belgrade; Milena NIKOLIĆ
    5. The emergence of family criminal law in Serbia: family as its first victim
      -- Professor Branislav RISTIVOJEVIĆ, PhD, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law
    6. New incriminations in the function of protecting women from violence
      -– Professor Slađana JOVANOVIĆ, PhD, University Union in Belgrade, Faculty of Law
    7. Instruments of penal law for the prevention of family violence: reasons for and against
      -Milevka MILENKOVIĆ, Court of Appeal in Kragujevac
  • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2017 - Congress Center “ROMANIJA”
  • 09:30-11:00 LECTURES OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. Limitation of personal freedom in criminal procedure – national legislation and international legal standards
      -Professor Drago RADULOVIĆ, PhD, University of Montenegro, Faculty of Law
    2. International cooperation in the area of criminal law and adequacy of fight against crime
      -Professor Božidar BANOVIĆ, PhD, Faculty of Security Studies in Belgrade
    3. Lawfulness of evidence obtained via special investigative techniques in the light of the decisions od European Court of Human Rights
      -Mile ŠIKMAN, PhD, Higher School of Internal Affairs, Banja Luka
    4. Relationships between and cooperation of subjects of criminal procedure as a factor of efficiency of discovering and proving criminal offences
      -Professor Stanko BEJATOVIĆ, PhD, Faculty of Law in Kragujevac
  • 11:00-11:30 BREAK
  • 11:30-12:00 PROMOTION OF BOOK “SECURITY MEASURES OF MEDICAL CHARACTER (REGIONAL CRIMINAL LEGISLATIONS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES)”
  • 12.00-13.00 SESSIONS, LECTURES OF PARTICIPANTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. Decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina about the compliance of Law on Criminal Procedure with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina
      -Academic Miodrag SIMOVIĆ, Faculty of Law in Banja Luka and Vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marina SIMOVIĆ, Secretary of Ombudsperson for Children of Republic of Srpska and Associate Professor of Faculty of Legal Sciences of University “Apeiron” in Banja Luka
    2. Presumption of innocence (scope and effects in criminal procedure)
      -Professor Tatjana BUGARSKI, PhD, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law
    3. Reformed concept of investigation (current experiences and measures of improvement)
      -Olgica MILADINOVIĆ, Republic Public Prosecutors Office
    4. Public Prosecutors Office facing the challenges of the Law on prevention of family violence
      -Radovan LAZIĆ, Svetlana NENADIĆ, State Council of Prosecutors
    5. Preparatory trial: norms and practice, justified or not?
      -– Miroslav ALIMPIĆ, Court of Appeal in Novi Sad; Tamara RADOVIĆ, Higher Court in Novi Sad
    6. Prescription of criminal prosecution (cause and consequences of emergence)
      -Veroljub CVETKOVIĆ, Court of Appeal in Belgrade
  • 13:00-15:00 LUNCH BREAK
  • 15:00-17:00 AFTERNOON SESSIONS
    1. The defendant as the subject of legality of resolving criminal-legal matters (law and practice)
      -Jugoslav TINTOR, Lawyer in Belgrade
    2. Responsibility of legal persons for criminal offences with special focus on the principle of opportunity
      -Jasmina KIURSKI, PhD, Republic Public Prosecutors Office
    3. The principle of truth and legality of resolving criminal cases
      -Professor Vojislav ĐURĐIĆ, University of Niš, Faculty of Law; Strahinja DAVIDOV, PhD, Lawyer in Novi Sad
    4. Cross examination
      -Olivera BOJOVIĆ, Court of Appeal in Kragujevac
    5. Deprivation of liberty by the police and the Law on prevention of family violence (blank dispositions: justified or not?)
      -Associate Professor Dragana ČVOROVIĆ, PhD, Professor Zvonimir IVANOVIĆ, PhD, Academy of Criminalistics and Police Sciences in Belgrade
    6. Whistle-blowers as a means of fighting against corruption
      -Darko DIMOVSKI, PhD, Ivan ILIĆ, University of Niš, Faculty of Law
    7. Inquest and treatment of temporarily confiscated objects
      -Ivana MILJUŠ and Bojana STANKOVIĆ, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law
  • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2017 - Congress Center “ROMANIJA”
  • 09:30-10:30 LECTURES OF PARTICIPANTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. Free Legal Assistance – international legal standards: norm and practice of Serbia
      -Darja KOTUROVIĆ, Consultant for Access to Justice
    2. Non-compensable damage of unjustified conduction of criminal procedure
      -Ivan MILIĆ, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law
    3. The burden and object of proving in misdemeanour procedure and appropriate application of Criminal Procedure Code
      -Mladen JELIČIĆ, PhD, Judge of Court of Misdemeanours in Šabac
    4. The system of enforcement of criminal sanctions
      -Vladimir VUKIĆEVIĆ, Consultant for human rights at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia; Aleksandra STEPANOVIĆ, Chief of Department for the Protection and Protection of Rights of the Persons Deprived of Liberty
  • DISCUSSION
  • 10:30-11:30 ADOPTION OF CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE