The School of Judges, taking into account the modern requirements and challenges that judges have to face, proceeded with the organization of an online seminar on "Decision Writing".
The two-hour seminar was successfully organized on May 3, 2022, with Mr. Tefcro Th. The participants and the speakers were welcomed by the Director of the School, Mr. George Erotokritou, who in his welcome address pointed out the enormous workload and pressure that the judges have to deal with due to the backlog of cases that have accumulated, resulting in the need to write short decisions without compromising quality.
The participants and the speakers were welcomed by the Director of the School, Mr. George Erotokritou, who in his address pointed out the enormous workload and pressure that the judges have to deal with due to the backlog of cases that have accumulated, resulting in the need to write short decisions without compromising quality. He stressed that writing a judgment is one of the skills a judge must have, which can be perfected with effort and over time.
The speakers of the Seminar, focused their attention on the structure and contentious issues concerning a court decision, the assessment of the credibility of witnesses, while at the same time they referred to the various ways of writing a decision.
During his presentation entitled "The Narrative of a Dispute", Judge Tefcros Th. Ikonomou, stressed that the purpose of a court decision is "undoubtedly the resolution of disputes, the determination of rights and obligations, the application of the law". He stressed that "the work of the judge is not formal and bureaucratic. It is inspired by much higher ideas and consists in safeguarding the basic conquests and principles of Western civilisation". Mr. Economou's presentation focused on the structure of the judicial decision, while he did not fail to mention various tools to assist each judge when drafting a decision.
The presentation of Judge Nicolas Santis, entitled "The Evaluative Moss in the Judicial Decision", was also very thorough, in which emphasis was placed mainly on the issue of assessing the credibility of witnesses, which is considered one of the most important parts of a judicial decision. In his speech, Mr. Sandis pointed out the "necessity of the judge's good knowledge of the issues at stake from the outset and his procedural ability to carefully intervene during testimony in order to ensure the avoidance of unjust ambiguities in the witnesses' testimony".
The Seminar is part of the Judicial School's funding from the Recovery and Resilience Project.
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