The Judicial Academy is in cooperation with the Office for International Assistance, Improvement and Professional Training in the Judiciary (UPDATE), US Department of Justice,OSCE mission in Serbia and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, on May 30 and 31, 2024 organized a two-day workshop on the topic: "Writing indictments" at the Marica Hotel in Niš. This two-day workshop was attended by public prosecutors from basic and higher public prosecutor's offices from the territories of the Kragujevac and Niš appeals.

The goals of this workshop are to help prosecutors and assistant prosecutors to organize facts and principles concisely and logically, to better understand the process of legal decision-making and writing indictments, as well as to improve representation skills. By clearer, higher quality, more consistent writing of indictments, the educational program strives to develop and strengthen the application of best practice.

  The topics covered at this workshop are:
-    Understanding indictments and charges
-    The role of the prosecutor
-    The purpose, structure and style of writing acts of public prosecutors
-    Methodology of legal reasoning, informal order of evidence
-    Application of the FIRAC method
-    Sentence of the indictment
-    Explanation of the indictment

The lecturers at this workshop were: Miroslav Krkelić, chief prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica, Dragoljub Miladinović, prosecutor of the Appellate Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš, Marija Aranđelović Jureša, judge of the High Court in Belgrade and member of the High Council of the Judiciary, Leposava Vujanović Porubović, prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade and Goran Jović, Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime.