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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GREPEC - ECPv5.1.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:GREPEC X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://grepec.usaintlouis.be X-WR-CALDESC:Évènements pour GREPEC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20251002T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20251004T180000 DTSTAMP:20260429T205318 CREATED:20251009T090045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T090351Z UID:3000-1759395600-1759600800@grepec.usaintlouis.be SUMMARY:Strengthening the position of lawyers in prisons — European Prisoner's Rights Day DESCRIPTION:Consultez le programme en version PDF\n  \nOver the last twenty years\, litigation before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights has gradually established itself as the preferred method of dealing with prison issues. The introduction of legal remedies for prisoners\, at the instigation of the Stras- bourg Court\, has thus marked an essential step in the emergence of a subjective right to protection behind bars. Moreover\, judicial proceedings are increasingly seen as an essential tool for compelling public decision-makers to eliminate ‘structural or systemic’ failures in prisons. \nHowever\, this development has taken a paradoxical turn: while the legal potential of these proceedings has increased and the issue of prison litigation has gained considerable visibility\, the attention paid to the involvement of lawyers – an essential condition for the effective exercise of these rights – has remained surprisingly limited. The model promoted by Council of Europe bodies is that of a judicial system that is both simplified\, being designed to adapt to the socio-economic profile of its users so they can act without\nexternal support\, and proactive\, with judges expected to swiftly establish alleged violations through the use of presumptions and order the necessary corrective measures. This favoured approach pays little heed to the complexity of procedures which involve overlapping national and European regulations\, the intensity of the confrontation resulting from any complaint filed in detention\, or the complex interactions between prison and judicial authorities. \nAdmittedly\, various international instruments address this issue. This is particularly true of UN guidelines\, which consider it from the perspective of defendants\, and more recently\, the EU Recommendation\,  which emphasises the right of detainees to have access to a lawyer and to lodge complaints about their treatment. However\, the wide margin of discretion left to States leads to disparate and highly unequal protection regimes. Actions in favour of prisoners’ rights are all the more exposed to the austerity policies at work in many European judicial systems. \nYet the current political instrumentalisation of pris- on issues\, which have become markers of a security-driven approach that openly defies human rights\,  is disrupting the conditions for lawyers’ intervention in detention\, while exacerbating the issues at stake. Europe has indeed entered a “new phase” in criminal justice4 fueled by “populist and authoritarian attitudes [which have] major implications for the criminal justice system”\, including from the point of view of prison officials themselves\, with the result being an increase in incarceration rates and the multiplication of security regimes. \nIn this context\, prison cases require a redoubled com- mitment on the part of lawyers: the justice system is under pressure from a growing number of interventions denouncing prisoners’ rights as intolerable privileges and sentence adjustments as unacceptable offences\nagainst the community and victims. \nThe role of lawyers is therefore increasingly required to take on a political dimension: together with NGOs\, members of the profession are at the forefront of public debate\, working to counter challenges to the cardinal principles of criminal law. How\, then\, can the position of lawyers in prisons be strengthened? What dynamics can be created between bar associations\, organisations and practitioners to raise the profile of this issue and ensure that it is addressed by the law? What scope for action can be opened up at European and international level to affirm this role as an essential component of the rule of\nlaw? \nThese questions will be addressed during the European Prisoners’ Rights Days\, which will bring together former prisoners\, practitioners\, academics\, association leaders and representatives of international organisations to collectively reflect on the role of lawyers in safeguard-\ning the right of access to justice in detention. This event inaugurates a new phase of civil society mobilisation aimed at strengthening prisoners’ access to justice\, with particular emphasis on the right to legal assistance. It builds on an earlier campaign that united national bar associations and civil society organisations for initiatives in the European Parliament and on European Lawyers’ Day in 2019. Given the current challenging context\, it is imperative to revitalise this effort. \n  \nPROGRAMME\nFRIDAY 3 OCTOBER\, from 9.00 to 18.00\nVenue : Saint Louis University\, Room P02\, Rue du Marais 119\, 1000 Brussels\, Belgium \n9.00 Registration & Coffee \n9:30 OPENING \nTo open the thematic workshops of the day\, the organisers will present the findings of studies by CSOs\, practitioners and academics on prisoners’ access to legal aid\, as well as lessons learnt from joint litigation and advocacy initiatives of CSOs and bar associations. \nWith: \n• Hugues de Suremain\, Legal Director of the European Prison Litigation Network\n• Agathe De Brouwer\, Lawyer and Legal Assistant in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Saint-Louis University (GREPEC)\n• Delphine Paci\, Lawyer\, Avocats.be – French- and German-speaking Bar Association of Belgium \n10:15 WORKSHOP 1: CURRENT CHALLENGES IN LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN DETENTION \nPanellists from France\, Italy\, Spain\, and Ukraine will discuss the challenges prisoners face in exercising their right to access a lawyer across different prison settings. Special attention will be given to obstacles in high-security regimes and during the post-sentence phase. They will also explore how access to a lawyer is essential to preventing torture and ill-treatment in prisons. \nWith:\n• Delphine Boesel\, Lawyer\, Paris Bar Association\n• Antonella Mascia\, Lawyer\, Verona Bar Association\n• Carlos García-Castaño\, Lawyer\, General Council of Spanish Lawyers\, Rebeca Santamalia Penitentiary Law Association\n• Oleh Tsvilyi\, Former prisoner\, Director of the NGO Protection for Prisoners of Ukraine \n12.30 Break \n14.00 WORKSHOP 2: THE CHALLENGES OF LAWYERS’ INTERVENTION IN PRISONS IN TERMS\nOF SAFEGUARDING THE RULE OF LAW \nThe panellists will address the risks posed to the rule of law by the erosion of procedural rights in prisons\, in a context of increasing political and public demand for harsher criminal policies\, inflating prison incarceration rates and the multiplication of high security prison regimes. They will also discuss the role of the legal profession\, particularly lawyers and judges\, in defending the cardinal principles of criminal law in the public debate. \nWith:\n• Matylda Pogorzelska\, Project officer at the Justice\, Digital and Migration Unit\, EU Fundamental Rights Agency\n• Zsófia Moldova\, Director of the Justice Programme\, Hungarian Helsinki Committee\n• Fabio Gianfilippi\, Spoleto Sentence Supervision Judge\n• Christine Graebsch\, Lawyer\, Professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts\, Board member of the NGO Strafvollzugsarchiv (Prisons’ Archive)\, Member of the Lawyers’ Association for Democracy and Human Rights \n15:30 Break \n16.00 WORKSHOP 3: LAWYERS’ MOBILISATION IN FAVOUR OF THE RIGHT TO LEGAL AID \nPractising lawyers and representatives of lawyers’ associations will share their experiences and discuss the lessons learnt from initiatives to mobilise the legal profession in support of the right to legal aid in prisons. \n• Marcin Wolny\, Lawyer\, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights & Warsaw Bar Association\n• Delphine Paci\, Lawyer\, Avocats.be – the French- and German-speaking Bar Association of Belgium\n• A representative of the Delegation of French Bars in Brussels\n• Nicola Canestrini\, Lawyer\, Italian Bar Association and national expert in the CCBE Criminal Law committee\n• João Matos Viana\, Lawyer\, Vice-President of Forum Penal – Criminal Lawyers Association \n17.30 CLOSURE \nIn this final round of discussion\, the participants will draw conclusions from the workshops of the day\nwith a view to shaping the outlines of new European civil society campaign in favour of the right to\nlegal aid and access to a lawyer in detention. \n18.00 End \n  \nSATURDAY 4 OCTOBER\, from 10.00 to 16.30 \nClosed event for EPLN members & partners only\nVenue : Saint Louis University\, Room P02\, Rue du Marais 119\, 1000 Brussels\, Belgium \n10:00 EPLN ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY \n13.00 Break \n14:00 ORIENTATION DEBATE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY\nPrisoners’ rights NGOs confronting legal\, political and financial threats: what\ncollective responses? \n16.30 Closure \n  \n URL:https://grepec.usaintlouis.be/event/strengthening-the-position-of-lawyers-in-prisons-european-prisoners-rights-day/ LOCATION:UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles\, Rue du Marais 119\, Bruxelles\, 1000\, Belgique ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grepec.usaintlouis.be/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EPRD_programme_ENG_25.09.2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20251030T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20251030T170000 DTSTAMP:20260429T205318 CREATED:20250929T090626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250929T090729Z UID:2988-1761813000-1761843600@grepec.usaintlouis.be SUMMARY:Workshop on National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMS) In Europe DESCRIPTION:Fifty years ago we saw the first steps towards developing a preventive approach towards tackling torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In the mid-1970s Jean-Jacques Gautier\, a retired Swiss banker\, became interested in the predicament of political prisoners and\, within a fairly brief period of time (until his death in 1986)\, managed to build an international coalition in support of his idea of establishing and introducing an international monitoring mechanism\, that would enable a group of experts to visit places of detention in different parts of the world. \nAs a result the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) (operational since 1989)\, the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) (operational since 2007)\, and so-called National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) came to be established. \nThe methodology of these bodies is more or less the same: independent (international) experts can visit places of detention and can observe and talk freely to detainees\, officials\, etc. The findings and recommendations of such monitoring bodies are then written down in reports which are sent to the authorities of the visited state and form the basis of an on-going dialogue. To mark the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT)\, this workshop will focus on one major component of this growing network of monitoring\nbodies\, that is\, the establishment of NPMs in a European context. Invited speakers coming from different parts of Europe will share their expertise on their countries’ processes in ratifying OPCAT as well as the establishment and functioning of the NPMs. Throughout the workshop\, we will address the following questions: \n\nHow are NPMs organised in European countries and what is their legal framework?\nWhat was the process of OPCAT ratification in European countries\, and to which extent was theestablishment of NPMs supported or challenged?\nWhat have been the initial experiences and observations since establishing NPMs?\nHow do NPMs fulfil their mandate (e.g. organisation and modalities of visits\, methodology\, access to places of detention\, publication of results\, relations with authorities and civil society\, etc.)?\nWhat are the main challenges faced by NPMs (resource limitations\, lack of cooperation from authorities\, lack of access to places of detention\, legal constraints\, etc.)?\nTo which extent have NPMs impacted policies across European countries\, and what influence do they exert on policymaking?\n\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION\nThe workshop will be hosted at the Faculty of Law & Criminology\, College De Valk\, Large Conference Room\, Tiensestraat 41\, Leuven. \nThe workshop is hybrid and online participants can join via Teams. \nParticipation to the event is free\, but registration is required.\nIt is no longer possible to register for physical attendance.\nFor online participation\, please register here: https://www.law.kuleuven.be/linc/english/workshopnpm. \n  \nPROGRAMME : PDF version here\n8:45 AM – 9:00 AM: Welcome by Tom Daems (KU Leuven\, member of the CPT) \n9:00 – 9:20 AM: SPT and NPMs: an evolving relation by Barbara Bernath & Elina Steinerte (SPT members) \n9:20 AM – 10:20 AM: First Panel \nThe French Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté (CGLPL) : a panoptic control over confinement places – Ariane Amado (CNRS) & Julia Schmitz (Université de Toulouse Capitole)\nCzech NPM: Approaching 20 years of operation and ongoing challenges – Miriam Tomášková (Office of the Public Defender of Rights – Czech NPM) \n10:20 AM – 10:45 AM: Health Break \n10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Second Panel \nTen years of griefs: Italy’s NPM between an uncertain past and a troubled future – Adriano Martufi (University of Pavia)\nCreation\, development and future of the Dutch National Preventive Mechanism. A new horizon for prevention of torture in places of deprivation of liberty in the Netherlands? – Pauline Jacobs (Tilburg University)\nThe United Kingdom’s National Preventive Mechanism: Coordination and challenges – Sam Gluckstein (UK NPM) \n12:15 PM – 13:30 PM: Lunch \n13:30 PM – 15:00 PM: Third Panel\n\nPrisons and forensic hospitals: Challenges and opportunities in the light of German federalism – Pascal Décarpes (National Agency for the Prevention of Torture – German NPM)\n15 years of the Swiss NPM: Reflections and progress – Jean-Sébastien Blanc (National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) – Swiss NPM)\nThe Austrian Ombudsman Board as National Preventive Mechanism: A unique approach combining OPCAT and CRPD mandates – Kerstin Buchinger & Johannes Carniel (Austrian Ombudsman Board – Austrian NPM)\n\n15:00 PM – 15:15 PM: Health break\n\n15:15 PM – 16:15 PM: Belgium’s long road to OPCAT ratification: Challenges and prospects of the new « umbrella model » for oversight bodies – Olivia Nederlandt (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) & Aurore\nVanliefde De Keyser (KU Leuven) with response from Claudia Bonamini (Belgian NPM) \n15:45 PM – 16:30 PM: Roundtable discussion and closing remarks \n\nORGANISATION\n\nThis workshop is co-organised by the research line Punishment & Control\, Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC)\, KU Leuven and the Groupe de Recherche en matière Pénale et Criminelle (GREPEC)\, UCLouvain\nSaint-Louis Bruxelles. \n  \n  \n URL:https://grepec.usaintlouis.be/event/workshop-on-national-preventive-mechanisms-npms-in-europe/ LOCATION:KULeuven\, Tiensestraat 41\, Leuven\, 3000\, Belgique ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://grepec.usaintlouis.be/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/NPM-workshop-programme_19_09-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR