The Judicial Academy, in cooperation with the OSCE Mission in Serbia, on November 1, 2024, at the Tami Hotel in Niš, as part of the project "Building the capacity of actors of criminal justice for better implementation of legislation", organized a seminar for professional training of judges on the topic "Forensic expertise in the service of presenting evidence". This training was attended by judges of higher and basic courts from the territory of the Nis appeal, as well as beneficiaries of the initial training of the Judicial Academy.

The following topics were covered at this seminar:
-    Presentation of case study, indictment model and material evidence;
-    Traces and their evidentiary potential in the field of DNA expertise;
-    Traces and their evidentiary potential in the field of physico-chemical expertise;
-    Traces and their evidentiary potential in the field of trasological and ballistic expertise;
-    Toxicological expertise;
-    Interpretation of expert results in the context of the case and drawing conclusions.

The lecturers at this seminar, whose moderator was Nataša Novaković, head of the unit for human rights and the criminal justice system in the OSCE Mission in Serbia, were: Dr. Nataša Radosavljević-Stevanović, head of the Department for Physical-Chemical and Toxicological Expertise, Nenad Aranitović, head of the Department for Operational forensics, quality control and improvement of forensic expertise and analyses, Jelena Stošić, Head of the Department for DNA Expertise and Management of the National DNA Registry, and Predrag Korać, Head of the Department for Electronic and Information Forensic Expertise.