Portugal will help Cabo Verde set up a Legal and Judicial Training Centre

Lisbon, Jul 3 (Inforpress) - The Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ) in Portugal is going to help Cabo Verde by sharing experience and carrying out a technical mission with a view to setting up the Centre for Legal and Judicial Training (CFJJ) in the archipelago.

The Minister of Justice, Joana Rosa, was received on Wednesday by the director of the CEJ in Portugal, Judge Counsellor Fernando Vaz Ventura, who encouraged the minister to go ahead with the project, guaranteeing the collaboration of the institution she heads in its realisation.

On the occasion, the Cape Verdean leader presented the state of play of the process of creating the CFJJ, detailing the objectives, the model, the structure, as well as the reforms needed and underway to improve the archipelago's judicial system in the face of the increase in backlogs, i.e. the judicial configuration in relation to the challenges of the sector.

Joana Rosa emphasised the need to maintain the partnership with the CEJ, particularly in the training of trainers and ongoing training of magistrates, a collaboration that she said has been beneficial for Cabo Verde. 

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