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Working visit on legal basic and further training in Sonthofen, Kempten and Munich

Published: November 4, 2019
The Kazakh delegation visiting the Regional Court of Kempten: Gunther Schatz (4th from left), Vice-President of the Regional Court; Adlet Rayev (6th from left), Senior Public Prosecutor at the training institute of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Christian Roch (on his right), Presiding Judge at the Regional Court of Kempten
The Kazakh delegation visiting the Regional Court of Kempten: Gunther Schatz (4th from left), Vice-President of the Regional Court; Adlet Rayev (6th from left), Senior Public Prosecutor at the training institute of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Christian Roch (on his right), Presiding Judge at the Regional Court of Kempten
Kazakhstan

From 14 to 16 October 2019, a delegation from the Kazakh Office of the Public Prosecutor General and the Law Academy of Law Enforcement Authorities visited Bavaria to learn about basic and further training for judges, public prosecutors and the police in Germany. The working visit, which was attended by public prosecutors from the Kazakh Office of the Public Prosecutor General and employees of the Law Academy of Law Enforcement Authorities at the Office of the Public Prosecutor General, was organised by the IRZ.

The Kazakh guests visited the Local Court of Sonthofen, the Regional Court of Kempten and the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, where the focus was on the following main topics:

  • Basic and further training for police officers,
  • studies, preparatory training and state exams for judges and public prosecutors,
  • conduct of criminal proceedings in Germany (stages of the proceedings, indictment),
  • appointment of staff for courts and public prosecutor’s offices,
  • further training for judges and public prosecutors in Bavaria and
  • cooperation with the German Judicial Academy.

The following experts were among those appointed by the IRZ to take part in the working visit:

  • Christian Roch, Presiding Judge at the Regional Court of Kempten,
  • Prof. Dr. Bijan Nowrousian, a professor in criminal law and the law of administrative offences at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Management of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Sebastian Pitz, a judge at the Regional Court of Kempten and Memmingen and head of the working committee for trainee lawyers, and
  • Theresa Beck, Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, HR Department.
The participants showed a great deal of interest in the topics covered during the working visit and the discussions with their German colleagues were very fruitful. The Kazakh guests would like to continue this type of cooperation in future.