Programme

Sunday, May 26

Meeting of participants (Stradun, Gradska kavana, 19,30‐20,00)

Informal joint dinner

Monday, May 27

Registration

(9,00‐9,30)

Opening:

(9,30-13,00)

Coffee break

11,00‐11,30

Lunch Break

(13,00-15,00)

Afternoon Session:

(15,00-18,00)

Opening speeches

Aleš Galič (Ljubljana): Disclosure of evidence: Privilege against self‐incrimination or a quest for procedural fairness and substantive justice

Alan Uzelac (Zagreb): Evidence and the principle of proportionality – how to get rid of expensive and time‐consuming evidence?

General discussion

Book Presentation (Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation) and book announcement (Appeals and Other Means of Recourse against Civil Judgments)

Panel: Evidence‐taking – Current developments in Italy

Francesca Ferrari, Francesco Vitella, Gina Gioia, Massimiliano Bina, Gabriele Molinaro

Tuesday, May 28

Morning Session:

(9,30-13,00)

Coffee break

11,00‐11,30

Lunch Break

(13,00-15,00)

Afternoon Session:

(15,00‐18,00)

Remco van Rhee (Maastricht): Presumptions in Dutch civil procedure

Viktoria Harsagi (Budapest): Evidence, information technology and principles of civil procedure

Elisabeta Silvestri (Pavia): Lost in translation? Language differences and evidence‐taking in civil litigation

Slađana Aras (Zagreb): The sin of evidence‐taking in Croatian courts of appeal – why no fact‐finding at second level of adjudication?

Zvonimir Jelinić (Osijek): The need to redefine the concept of evidence in Croatian order for payment procedure

Wednesday, May 29

Morning session

(9,30-13,30)

Coffee break

11,00‐11,30

Lunch break

(13,30-14,30)

Afternoon Study Trip

Emmanuel Jeuland (Paris): Recent developments in the approach to evidence – a French perspective

Paul Oberhammer (Vienna): New trends of evidence in German‐speaking countries

Bartosz Karolczyk (Warsaw): Preclusion of late allegations and evidence as a tool to increase efficiency of civil trials: A short story of the ugly past and the long way towards the brightfuture

General discussion

Afternoon: Trip to Pelješac Penninsula (Potomje/Dingač, Mali Ston)

Thursday, May 30

Morning Session

(9,30‐13,00)

Lunch Break

(13,00-15,00)

Afternoon Session:

(15,00‐18,00)

Danie van Loggerenberg (Pretoria, South Africa): Evolution of the powers of the judge and the powers of the parties regarding taking of evidence

Olaf Halvorsen Rønning and Jon Johnsen (Oslo): Evidence production and legal aid

General discussion

Frank Hoogers, Hannah Jans, Rianne Mertens, Vera Poels(Maastricht): Witness testimony in Dutch civil procedure: facts, figures and statistical relations

Panel: The future of the law of evidence in European Union

Introduction: Tomaž Keresteš, Vesna Rijavec; Discussants:Tjaša Ivanc, Jose Caramelo Gomes, Noemia Rute Peres de Bessa Vilela, Lazo Jesus Bores, Boštjan Kežman, Urška Kežmah, Piotr Fiedorczyk, Jerca Kramberger Škerl

Friday, May 31

Morning Session

(9,30-13,00)

Lunch break

(13,00-14,00)

Afternoon Session

(14,00-15,30)

Wrap‐up and departure

(15,30-17,00)

Panel: Legal Clinics at the Law Faculties – Can they contribute to expanding access to justice? How to overcome evidentiary difficulties of legally illiterate clients?

Participants: Legal Clinics and clinical initiatives from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands

Session I: Introduction of various clinical foundations and aims:

‐ Mission, objectives, and aims of various models of Legal Clinics

‐ Characteristics, tools, and methods of clinical legal education

‐ Clinical legal education and integration in the law school curriculum

Session II: The role of Legal Clinics in promoting and advancing access to justice

Discussion Topics:

‐ Raising awareness about the law: street law initiatives, mobile legal clinics

‐ Legal advocacy, legislative drafting, and lobbying efforts

‐ Working with national, regional, and international human rights mechanisms and tribunals

Session III: The Global Clinical Movement: National, Regional and International Cooperation and Exchange

Session IV: Legal Clinics ‐ Past, Present and Future

‐ Obstacles and opportunities for developing national, regional and international clinical cooperation

‐ Lessons learned from new and developing clinics

‐ Prospects for growth and progress