Content:

This module aims at enabling the trainees to cope with issues related, directly or indirectly, with the law. It includes the following courses: Practical Approach to Criminal Proceedings, Practical Approach to Civil Proceedings, The Reform of the Judiciary, Social Sciences, Ethics, Intensive Legal and Business English, Intensive Legal and Business French, New Legal Fields, Communication for Lawyers, International Proceedings, Accounting and Management for Lawyers, ICT for Lawyers, Gender and Domestic Relations, Land Transactions and Mock Trial.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

• Differentiate Criminal Proceedings from Civil Proceedings;
• Differentiate differences between common and civil law;
• Differentiate differences between the adversarial and inquisitorial penal systems;
• Identify reasons for the Rwandan Judicial Reform;
• Identify influences that social sciences have on law;
• List rules of juridical ethics;
• List developments in law;
• List Basic principles of modern management and accounting.

Cognitive/Intellectual skills/Application of Knowledge

• Find legal information through various sources, including Internet;
• Compare (aspects of) legal systems.

Communication/ICT/Numeracy/Analytic Techniques/Practical Skills

• Organize the unfolding of proceedings, from the beginning to the end;
• Apply the standard of proof in the role of judge, prosecutor and lawyer.

General transferable skills

• Perform well in juridical research on the internet and the application of word, excel and power point;
• Integrate legal knowledge in the different working fields of the prosecutor, lawyer and judge.

Target group:

Judges, prosecutors, attorneys

Duration:

2 weeks

Period:

23 February – 6 March

Venue:

ILPD Nyanza