Strasbourg CNCEJ 09/24/2016 Jean-Raymond LEMAIRE (not for profit - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Strasbourg – CNCEJ – 09/24/2016 Jean-Raymond LEMAIRE

(not for profit organization)

September 2016

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• A think tank gathering:
• Magistrates: judges and prosecutors – Courts of

appeal or equivalent;

• Lawyers - Associations;
• Academics – Universities or faculties;
• Court Experts – representative associations;

from all over the European Union.

• Created in October 2006.

Structure

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European Expertise & Expert Institute Goals and approach

• Goals
• harmonization of expertise proceedings & expert’s status,

ethics, training and evaluation across European Justice systems

• Improving quality & independence of expertise in the EU
• Facilitate & Build a European Union expertise area
• Approach
• Teamwork between legal practitioners (judges, prosecutors,

lawyers, experts), academics, legal persons & citizens

• Permanent activities: research work, mutual assistance

network, document database on expertise, conferences, web site …

• Projects from the European Union programs (EUREXPERTISE,

EGLE …)

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Profile and members

• Sample of regional

judicial institutions in EU.

• Courts (46%), bars (25%),

expert associations (20%), universities (9%)

• 16 States represented
• 73 Organizations
• > 200 members
• Contributors from 25 states

Court

46%

Bar

25%

Experts

20%

University

9%

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A significant development over past 10 years

Organizations Member States Courts Bars Experts Universities Total Belgium 6 2 1 2 11 Bulgaria 1 1 Czech Republik 2 1 1 4 France 9 7 6 1 23 Germany 1 1 Hungary 1 1 2 Italy 5 5 10 Latvia 1 1 Lithuania 2 2 Malta 1 1 Poland 1 1 Portugal 1 1 Romania 2 2 1 5 Spain 2 1 2 1 6 The Netherlands 3 3 United Kingdom 1 1 Total 33 18 15 7 73

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EEEI actions

Thesis November 2015 The expert psychiatrist and sexual crimes in 5 countries EUREXPERTISE EGLE experts-institute.eu

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EEEI projects: EUREXPERTISE

• Cofunded by the European Commission (DG Justice), the

purpose of this project was to issue recommendations on harmonizing the rules of legal expertise and the status of Court experts in the European Union.

• EUREXPERTISE was based on an inventory in each country, of

the procedures of expertise and statuses of experts; an ad hoc questionnaire was sent to all EU Supreme Courts. EEEI has collected, verified and completed all the answers for each country and then analyzed it.

http://www.experts-institute.eu/- EUREXPERTISE,86-.html#1808

July 2010 to June 2012.

• Symposium in BRUSSELS, March 2012, 180 participants and

17 countries represented.

This project is co- funded by the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union

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EEEI projects: EGLE Mar. 2014-Dec. 2015

• Organisation
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a consensus conference at the European level to promote the rapprochement

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national proceedings in civil judicial expertise;

• Cofunded by EC;
• Topics:
• training, skills
• national and European directory, nomenclature
• appointment, control, compensation
• status,
• missions,
• independence.

This project is co- funded by the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union

JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4664

This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union. The contents

• f this publication are the sole responsability of the EEEI and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European

Commission.

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EEEI projects: EGLE (2)

• More than 40 workshops around the EU;
• More than 100 people (magistrates, lawyers, experts,

academics) involved in the preparatory work

• A Consensus conference in Rome, May 29th 2015 in the

Italian Supreme Court.

160 participants from

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25 countries. European Commission, Council of Europe.

• The EGLE Guide is available since October 2015: Guide
• f good practice in civil judicial expertise in EU.

FR : http://experts-institute.eu/Publication-du-guide-des-bonnes.html EN : http://gb.experts-institute.eu/Publication-of-the-guide-to-good.html

Translations : IT, BG, ES - ongoing : DE, PT, PL, RO.

This project is co- funded by the Civil Justice Programme of the European Union

JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4664

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Other Topics

• CEPEJ. EEEI was appointed by the CEPEJ as observer

in the Evaluation Working Group (GT-EVAL). EEEI collaborates on the study of civil and criminal legal expertise.

• Book.

Expertise de justice

Quel avenir en Europe

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Published in Oct.2014 by Bruylant,

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Civil legal expertise in EU, co-authored by ten European authors under the direction of Ms Patricia Grandjean.

• Book. Guide of good practice in civil judicial expertise

in EU. Commented by European personalities. Published 12 Oct. 2016 by Bruylant.

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Upcoming EEEI projects

• Inventory and harmonization of expertise proceedings for

criminal justice, as well as the sharing of information between the judicial systems of European countries;

• training at European level, of judicial experts, judges

and lawyers about "the right use of judicial expertise."

• Opportunity

analysis for the creation

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a European directory of experts that could be published on the website of e-Justice of the European Union.

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• www. exp

xper erts ts-inst institut itute.eu e.eu

Mailing address: Jean-Raymond LEMAIRE 38, rue de Villiers – 92532 Levallois-Perret cedex – France Tel: +33 (1) 41 49 07 60 – Fax: +33 (1) 41 49 02 89 contact@experts-institute.eu

EUROPEAN EXPERTISE AND EXPERT INSTITUTE

INSTITUT EUROPEEN DE L’EXPERTISE ET DE L’EXPERT

s/c Cour d’Appel de Versailles 5, rue Carnot – 78000 Versailles – France

Not for profit organisation