The Polish National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
The National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, which was appointed as a legal entity on the basis of Act of 23 January 2009, shall be the central institution responsible for providing the initial and continuous training for the officials of the common courts of law and the public prosecutor’s office in Poland.
The main statutory tasks of the National School shall be:
- conducting the general initial training, judge’s initial training and prosecutor’s initial training.
- training and enhancing the professional competences of the officials of the common courts of law and the public prosecutor’s office;
- providing the research and analysis for determining the competence and qualifications assigned to particular positions in courts and public prosecution
School authorities shall be Executive Board and Director.
Executive Board is appointed by the Minister of Justice.
The composition of the Executive Board includes 15 members recommended by different authorities and institutions.
The Board shall be responsible for:
- outlining general directions of activity for the National School;
- drafting annual schedules of training activities for the National School;
- passing curricula for initial and continuous legal training;
- expressing opinion on the composition of teams and boards for contests and examinations;
- setting annual publishing targets for the National School;
- passing organisational regulations for the National School;
- selecting and expressing opinions on candidates for lecturers for the National School;
The activities of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution are managed by the director who shall be appointed by the Minister of Justice with the previous advice of the National Judicial Council and the National Council of Prosecutor’s Office.
Director of the National School shall manage the activities of the National School and represent it outside.
In particular, the Director of the National School shall be responsible for:
- outlining organisational regulations for the National School;
- directly supervising the organisational units in the National School;
- enforcing annual schedules of training activities for the Polish National School;
- ensuring performance of didactic processes and outlining training activities’ regulations for the National School;
- performance of objectives related to preparing and holding recruitment processes for the general, judge’s and prosecutor’s initial legal training as well as conducting the training and afterwards preparing and holding examinations for judges and prosecutors;
- outlining a detailed curriculum for initial legal training;
The director of the National School is Mr. Leszek Pietraszko, the Appeal Court Judge.
The tasks of the National School of initial training is carried out by the Centre of Initial Training located in Krakow.
The initial training’s tasks rely primarily on:
- preparing and conducting recruitment processes for the general, judge’s and prosecutor’s initial legal training;
- preparing and holding examinations for judges and prosecutors;
- organizing and monitoring the conduct of training processes, including:
- arrangement and implementation of training schedules,
- appointment of legal training coordinators and apprenticeship’s mentors and holding the systematically cooperation with them;
- coordinating the conduct of apprenticeships in courts and the public prosecution’s offices;
- training cooperation with the lecturers of the National School;
- supervising the implementation of the duties performed by the training coordinators, apprenticeship’s mentors, lecturers and trainees.
Trainees attend the legal training courses at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in Krakow. Meanwhile, they shall complete the legal apprenticeship in courts, prosecutor’s offices and other institutions associated with the functioning of the judiciary.
The legal training activities consist of lectures, workshops, case studies, moot court trails and legal proceedings.
The general training course lasts 12 months and the condition for its completion is getting positive final reviews for all the tests and legal practices of the initial training program.
The total sum of points obtained by the trainee at the time of serving the general initial training decides on the list of qualifying trainees announced by the Director of the National School. Admission to judge’s initial training (54 months) or the prosecutor's initial training (30 months) shall be decided on the position on the list of qualifying.
The centre of Continuous Training and International Cooperation of the National School is located in Lublin.
Its main statutory tasks include:
- continuous training of judges, prosecutors and prosecution assessors in order to complete and enhance their specialist knowledge and professional skills;
- continuous training of judges’ and prosecutors’ assistants, probation officers, officers of common courts and public prosecution.
- international cooperation within continuous training activities of the judiciary and public prosecution.
International cooperation is the crucial field of statutory activities of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution. Basically, it is realized under the agreements of bilateral as well as multilateral cooperation signed with the authorities of legal training institutions across Europe.
In terms of bilateral cooperation the National School cooperates systematically with the judicial training schools in the most member states of the European Union and national judicial schools of the states from the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
In terms of multilateral international cooperation there is a conduct of regional cooperation in frames of the Eastern Partnership with the judicial training institutions of Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Moldavia, as well as the regional cooperation realized in frames of Polish membership in Visegrad Group with the judicial training schools of the Czech Republic, Hungarian Republic and Slovak Republic.
International cooperation of the National School also involves the cross-border cooperation related to its membership in the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) and in the Lisbon Network of the Council of Europe. Besides, the National Schools cooperates with different international institutions and legal training organizations such as the European Academy of Law (ERA), European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), International Organization for Judicial Training (OIJT).
The National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution provides the participation of Polish judges and prosecutors and other officials of Polish judiciary in seminars and conferences, training and exchange programs organized abroad. Simultaneously, the National Schools shall be responsible for coordination of numerous international meetings and trainings held in Poland, addressed to judges and prosecutors.
International Cooperation Department, located in Lublin, is mainly responsible for managing the international activity of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution.
There are the crucial activities of research and analysis exercised in the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution in accordance with its statute. The research and analysis concern:
- current and forehead training needs regarding continuous as well initial training of the judiciary;
- methods and instruments of training’s enforcement;
- evaluation methods of legal trainings organised by the National School;
- definition of profile of competences and qualification for chosen positions in common courts and the prosecutor’s offices drafted upon the current training needs;
The National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution is a beneficiary of the European Social Fund and its Operational Programme ‘Human Capital’. The school also participated the enforcement of Transition Facility Project. Due to the European Union grants the National School arranges the specialist trainings, exchange programmes and study visits as well as the discussion expert panels and workshops for the judicial officials.
The Legal Act on Polish National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
The Polish National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
Contact
Director’s Office
ul. Przy Rondzie 5
31-547 Kraków
Poland
tel.+4812 617 96 14
fax +48 12 617 94 11
e-mail: sekretariat@kssip.gov.pl
Centre of Initial Training
ul. Przy Rondzie 5
31-547 Kraków
Poland
tel. +48 12 617 94 20
fax +48 12 617 94 21
e-mail: sekretariat.osw@kssip.gov.pl
Centre of Continuous Training and International Cooperation
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 62
20-076 Lublin
Poland
tel. +48 81 440 87 10
fax +48 81 440 87 11
e-mail: sekretariat.lublin@kssip.gov.pl
International Cooperation Department
Head of the International Cooperation Department
judge Wojciech Postulski
Tel. +48 81 440 87 15
Fax.+48 81 440 87 19
e-mail: w.postulski@kssip.gov.pl
Team
judge Grzegorz Borkowski Ph.D.
Tel. +48 81 440 87 27
Fax.+48 81 440 87 19
e-mail: g.borkowski@kssip.gov.pl
Olga Binert-Mielko
Tel. +48 81 440 87 16
Fax.+48 81 440 87 19
e-mail: o.binert@kssip.gov.pl
Anna Mendel
Tel. +48 81 440 87 17
Fax. +48 81 440 87 19
e-mail: a.mendel@kssip.gov.pl
Anna Natorska-Michrowska
Tel. +48 81 440 87 26
Fax.+48 81 440 87 19
e-mail: a.michrowska@kssip.gov.pl