Programme

Sunday, May 25

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

Monday, May 26

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

Laura Ervo (Helsinki): Should Fair Trial Rights Be Redefined?

Danie van Loggerenberg (Pretoria, South Africa): What is happening to fundamental procedural guarantees in the area of civil justice? A View from South Africa

Alan Uzelac (Zagreb): Access to Justice in the 21st Century: Are Current Judicial Practices Hopelessly Antiquated? Evidence, Communication Techniques, Trials

General discussion

Book Presentation (Nobody’s Perfect: Appeals against Judgments in Civil Litigation);

Preparatory information for the EU JUST Book in the project “Dimensions of Evidence in Europan Civil Procedure”

Sebastian Spinei (Sibiu): The Right Principles –What Outcome? Fundamental procedural rights and their implementation in Romanian Civil Procedure

Ivan Milotić (Zagreb): Roman Foundations of Modern Concepts on Access to Justice and Their Relevance for Contemporary Societies

Katharina Auernig (Vienna): The Right to Be Heard in Arbitration Proceedings – a

Comparative Approach

Tuesday, May 27

Morning Session  (9,30 - 13,00)

[Coffee break 11,00 ‐ 11,30]

Lunch Break (13,00 - 15,00)

Afternoon Session  

(15,00 ‐ 18,00)

Aleš Galič (Ljubljana): Inconsistency of Case Law and Right to a Fair Trial

Richard Marcus (San Francisco): American Misgivings About U.S. Exceptionalism – Court Access as a Zero/Sum Game 

Magne Strandberg (Bergen): Article 6(2) of European Human Rights Convention as a Basis for a Standard of Evidence in Civil Cases ‐ Remarks on Some Supreme Court Judgments  Andrej Auersperger Matić (Brussels): Access to Justice in the EU: Conceptual Dilemmas and Practical Challenges 

Jon T. Johnsen (Oslo): Proper Judicial Time‐Management as Procedural Human Right 

Slađana Aras (Zagreb): Are Financial Burdens Preventing Access to Justice in Southeast European Judicial Systems?

Anthony Valcke (Brussels), Legal Information, Advice and Assistance in the Western Balkans and Turkey

Zvonimir Jelinić (Osijek): Fighting Recession at the Expense of Access to Justice. The Case of

Croatian Financial Operations and Pre‐Bankruptcy Settlements Act 

Wednesday, May 28

Morning session 

(9,00 - 14,00)

[Coffee break 11,00 ‐ 11,30]

Lunch break (14,00 - 15,00)

Afternoon Study Trip

Stefan Voet (Ghent): Legal Aid in a European Context

Fu Yulin (Beijing): Conciliation and Access to Justice: a Chinese Perspective

Pablo Bravo Hurtado (Maastricht; Chile): Access to the Supreme Court: A Human Right? General discussion

Afternoon: Trip to Cavtat, Dinner on Bosanka Hill (optional)

Thursday, May 29

Morning Session(9,30‐13,00)

Lunch Break (13,00 – 15,00)

Afternoon Session  (15,00 - 18,00)

Jorg Sladič (Ljubljana), Conditions of Admissibility and Access to Justice ‐ A Slovenian perspective

Adela Ognean (Sibiu): Right to a Trial within a Reasonable Time: Problems and Challenges in Romanian Civil Procedure

Tanja Domej (Zürich): Access to justice ‐ Current Issues in Switzerland

Natalia Baradanchenkova & Ksenia Sergeeva (Yekaterinburg), Russian judicial reform and how it may affect procedural human rights and access to justice General discussion

Olaf Halvorsen Rønning (Oslo): Current ECHR Case Law on Procedural Issues Regarding Applications and Decisions on Legal Aid

Tomislav Karlović (Zagreb): Prohibition of Retroactivity as Procedural Human Right. Some Remarks from a Historical PerspectiveBianca Laarhoven, Stefan Nieuwendijk and Jeffrey van Nuland (Maastricht):  Research on "the paradox of access to justice"

Friday, May 30

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 and Advice Centers in the service of enhancing access to justice

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

‐ Alan Russel (London): Legal Clinic at London South Bank University 

‐ Mona McKiernan (Oslo): The Current Work and Projects of Juss Buss

‐ Mateja Crnković (Zagreb): Access to Administrative Justice in the Light of Analysis of Zagreb Legal Clinic Cases 

‐ Students of Zagreb Legal Clinic: How Legal Clinic in Zagreb Developed to one of the Major Legal Aid Providers in Croatia?

‐ Asmira Bećiraj, Ajna Bakrač (Bihać): Developing Legal Clinic in Bihać – Challenges and Achievements