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CSO Monitor from Novi Pazar, with the financial support of the United States Embassy in Serbia, is implementing a project called “Hate Crimes Trials Moot court for Young Lawyers of Southwestern Serbia” from October 2019 to February 2020.
The project aims to increase the capacity of young lawyers (undergraduate law students and law graduates up to 29 years of age) in southwestern Serbia to participate in trials from the field of hate crimes through the roles of prosecution, advocacy and court. During the six months of the project, 25 selected young lawyers will, through a series of activities, including: attending a three-day seminar and mentoring sessions with theorists and practitioners from the prosecutors, attorneys and judges of Novi Pazar, to prepare and implement 5 simulations of criminal proceedings of crime cases from the field of hate crime. Each of the simulations will be based on a different hate motive. In this way, young lawyers will learn how to handle the role of procedural actors in hate crime cases by working on simulated cases.
Pursuant to the above objective of the Project in the period 22-24. An intensive seminar on hate crimes will be held in Vrnjacka Banja on November 2019 for the participants of this program, who, after attending the seminar together with their mentors from December 2019 to January 2020, will work on the preparation of a simulation of the trials from the field of hate crime cases. The case simulations themselves will be publicly realized in February 2020.
For the purpose of organizing seminars on hate crimes for the participants of this program, on November 13, 2019 in Novi Pazar, a team of local experts from the ranks of criminal law professors, prosecutors, courts and lawyers were formed.