Application of the Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence
The training was organized for judges of misdemeanour courts and basic courts within the Kragujevac Appellate Court jurisdiction and for the Judicial Academy trainees.
The topics discussed during the training included:
- The United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women;
- The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (The Istanbul Convention);
- Risk assessment;
- Urgent measures (types, grounds for issuing, duration and violations);
- Multi-sectoral cooperation through work of the Coordination and cooperation group of contact persons.
The lecturers on this training were Biljana Gavrilović, a Misdemeanour Appellate Court judge in Kragujevac and Željko Radibratović, Deputy Appellate Public Prosecutor in Kragujevac.