Press release

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo, in cooperation with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kosovo and with the support of the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ), organized a workshop on: “Right to a reasoned decision – Its main elements and requirements/Jurisprudence, views and perspectives of the Supreme Court and of the Constitutional Court”, which was held in Thessaloniki on 3 and 4 October 2017.

The workshop was attended by judges and legal advisors from both courts, which discussed and exchanged their views on the principles of fair and impartial trial, decision within a reasonable time and the application of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and in particular Article 6 of the Convention.

The subject of the discussion was also the impact of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case law of Kosovo.

Among the main speakers at the workshop were the former Presiding Judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, Dr. Otto Mallmann, as well as Prof. Dr. Michaela Wittinger, professor of the Constitutional Law and European Law at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences in Brühl, Germany, who during their presentation provided a general overview of the German case law on the right to a reasoned decision and application of Article 6 of the ECHR.