In 2020, the KSC continued to receive invaluable feedback and recommendations on its outreach and communications activities from the Court Information Network (CIN), a forum established by the KSC in 2018, consisting of a group of 15 NGOs from Kosovo and Serbia. Following the publication of the first indictment, the President and the Registrar addressed the CIN in October in an interactive  online discussion about the start of proceedings and its impact on future communication needs.

In partnership with the NGOs Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo, AKTIV and Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo, the KSC hosted four online lectures involving a total of 70 students from Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 2020. The aim was to disseminate information about the court, answer questions from the audience and hear their concerns. The students came from Mitrovica University, IBCM, the HLC Transitional Justice workshop, the YIHR National Mock Trial, and the YIHR-USAID Youth Exchange programme on Dealing with the past.

In December 2020, the KSC Outreach team participated in an online roundtable organised by the NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia to provide detailed information about the court and its judicial activities. Participants came from various human rights and development NGOs based in Serbia.

In partnership with the NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo, the KSC held its first outreach event of 2021 with bachelor and master students from the Law Faculty of Pristina. In the course of a dynamic discussion, participants posed many questions on topics related to the court’s ongoing legal proceedings, aspects of the legal framework, types of crimes within the court’s jurisdiction, as well as on the role of the KSC-SPO Ombudsperson. 

PRACTICE DIRECTION ON FILES AND FILINGS

Public redacted version of the Decision on appeal before the Higher Judge for Staff Appeals of 4 December 2019