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Editorial
President András Baka
I avail myself of the present opportunity of the publication of the last
issue of our 2011 Newsletter to express how much I appreciated the period of our collaboration since I joined the Network and how much I was honoured by your support at my election as President of our Network during our last General Assembly held in Sofia on 13 October 2011. However, as...
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Editorial
President Griss
At its last General Assembly which was held in Sofia on 13 October 2011, President András Baka of the Supreme Court of Hungary was elected President of the Network for the coming two years. It was a pleasure for me to serve as president of our Network since the Colloquium which took place in Dublin in March 2010. I am indebted to all my Colleagues for their...
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Editorial
President Griss
As already mentioned in our last Newsletter, the Network has been invited at the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Luxembourg last March where two round-tables were organized, the first one focussing on Judicial co-operation in civil matters with introductory reports from President Koskelo (Finland) and Judge Toader (ECJ), and the other one on Judicial co-...
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Editorial
President Griss
It was in Luxembourg that the Network launched its activities for 2011. At the invitation of President Skouris, the Network met on 28 March 2011 with the Members of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to discuss Cooperation in Civil and Criminal Matters after the Treaty of Lisbon. Judge Toader (CJEU) and President Koskelo (Finland) opened the floor in...
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Editorial
President Griss
The year 2010 ended on a heavy programme of work successfully completed for the Network. The new Board, appointed on the occasion of the Dublin General Assembly last March held its second meeting in Florence to discuss our activities in 2011. On 28 March next, we will be officially received at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg with a view to discussing the new...
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You may consult here the Newsletter of the Network of October 2010.
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Editorial
President Griss
At this moment, when my colleagues - presidents of the supreme judicial courts of the European Union - have placed their trust in me for the next two years, I am only too aware of the scale of the task before me. Through the momentum provided in 2004 by First President Guy Canivet (France), maintained and developed by Lord Phillips, President of the Supreme Court...
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Editorial
President Melchior
In Dublin, on 19 March next, we will appoint the new President of the Network. In this, my last editorial, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my colleagues for their help during my term of office. I am particularly pleased that a larger number of colleagues have participated in our work, example of which, in this issue of our Newsletter, is the...
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Editorial
President Melchior
The Board of our Network held its second meeting of the year in London on 15 October 2009 in the premises of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, at the invitation of its President, Lord Phillips. Naturally, we discussed preparations for our Dublin Colloquium on the Practical Aspects of Independence of Justice, for which we have already received more than...
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Editorial
President Melchior
The Board held its first meeting in 2009 on 18 May at the Danish Supreme Court in Copenhagen. After consulting members of the Network whom we wish to thank for their comments, the Board adopted the topic of the Fourth Colloquium which will focus on the "Practical Aspects of the Independence of Justice" and on which this issue of our Newsletter provides further...
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Editorial
President Melchior
One of the objectives of our Network is to strengthen between our courts a common judicial culture. The exchanges of judges are obviously one of the privileged means to reach that goal and, therefore, we present you in this issue of our Newsletter the Resolution on the training of judicial staff which was adopted by the European Union Council on October 24th,...
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You may consult here the Newsletter of the Network of January 2009.
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You may consult here the Newsletter of the Network of October 2008.
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The July 2008 edition of the Newsletter of the Network can be found below.
The title of the section is : Common Portal of National Case Law.
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The March 2008 edition of the Newsletter of the Network can be found below.
The titles of the sections are :
Current status of the Commun Portal of National Case Law
Judicial assistance in the decision making throughour European Supreme Courts
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The December 2007 edition of the Newsletter of the Network can be found below.
The titles of the sections are :
Exchange of Judges between Supreme Courts
Some of the Changes Introduced by the Reform Treaty
The New Members of the Board of the EU Forum of Judes for the Environment
Competition Law
Working Group on Preliminary Ruling Proceedings
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The October 2007 edition of the Newsletter of the Network can be found below.
The titles of the sections are :
Speach of the President, opening of Cornell Centre ffor Documentation on American Law, 17 July 2007
Appointments
Conference of the Network and of the US Supreme Court, Paris, 17 July 2007
Agreement found on the EU Reform Treaty
New President of the Court of First Instance
The PNR (...
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The July 2007 edition of the Newsletter of the Network can be found below.
The titles of the sections are :
Late transposition of the 2005/35 directive on the discharge at sea
Simplified block exemption Regulations for State aid
The ECJ and the European Arrest Warrant
Launch of the European Patrols Network
European Contract Law
Rights of persons with disabilities
Harmonization in the field of the...
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Comparative Law: Test the Common Portal of National Case Law
The Common Portal of National Case Law which is set up by the Network of the Presidents is now available and open to the public. It was shown at the e-justice conference in Bremen (May 29-June1st). Queries can thus be sent to the databases of the House of Lords, of the Supreme Court of Ireland, of the Court of cassation of Belgium, the...
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Newswletter of the Network
The first Newsletter of the Network has been published: it contains information on the activities of the Network, on the Members as well as EU ongoing issues in the field on justice.
Review of the Consumer Acquis
The European Commisison published a Green Paper on the Review of the Consumer Acquis on March 15. All interested persons may express their views on the...
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Proposal for a directive on environmental crime
Following the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice of September 13, 2005, the European Commission presented on February 9, 2007 a proposal for a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law in order to remedy the lack of sanctions’ effectiveness resulting from the diversity of both definitions and sanctions in the...
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Europe of Justice - 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome
On January 8, 2007, Mr. Frattini, Vice President of the European Commission, Commissionner in charge of Justice, Freedom and Security, made a speech during the Opening of the Judicial Year in the Court of cassation. Mr de Villepin, Prime minister, Mr. Jean-Louis Debré, President of the National Assembly and Mr. Pascal Clément, minister...
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8th conference of the Presidents of the Supreme courts of the Council of Europe
On October 26 and 27, the presidents of the Supreme Courts of the Council of Europe will meet in Paris. More than 30 of them will attend the conference themselves, to discuss the subject matter of "Access to the Supreme Court". Various aspects of the subject will be dealt with: reception of individuals,...
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General Assembly of the European Network of Judicial Councils
On the 24 and 25 of May, the General Assembly of the European Network of Judicial Councils was held in Wroclaw (Poland). The main topic was “Public confidence in an independent Judiciary in Europe”. The Network of the Presidents was represented by its president, Mr Canivet, who made a speech on the “Practical implication of the...
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EU Forum of Judges for the Environment – London December 2 and 3, 2005
The EUFJE organized its annual conference in London. The Attorney general and the Lord Chief Justice took part in this event hosted by the Law Society and supported by the General directorate for environment of the European commission. The subject was “European waste law, theory and practice” and 16 countries answered the...
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