At the beginning of January 2012, the Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy elected its new leadership for the current year. The new President of the Council - Judge Alina Nicoleta GHICA and vice-president - Prosecutor Oana Andrea SCHMIDT HAINEALA will perform their duties for a one year term of office.

The Courts Service of Ireland published its December issue of Courts Service News.  

Special features include: 

• A look back at 2011
• Introduction to the new Chief Justice
• New Strategic Plan
• Delivering more with less

Newsletter number 4 contains a speech by the President of the CSM, Mr Horatius Dumbrava, on the occasion of the opening of the new Judicial Year. Newsletter number 5 focuses a.o. on project implemented by CSM that aimed to draft legislative proposals that would promote a nationwide unitary jurisprudence.

The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary underlines the message of the European Commission in their recent communication on European Judicial Training. The ENCJ stresses that the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) and the national training institutes are indispensible in reaching the goals set out by the European Commission.  The ENCJ is fully committed to contribute to the ambitions of the Commission and calls upon its Members to support and initiate actions that may add to the judges of Europe becoming European judges. 

On 13 September 2011 the European Commission adopted a Communication titled "Building trust in EU-wide justice - A new dimension to European judicial training" . In it the European Commision sets a goal of training 700.000 legal professionals in EU law by 2020.

Corresponding press release of the European Commission

The Consiliul Superior al Magistraturii of Romania took the initiative to publish a monthly newsletter in English. The first edition was published in May 2011 and introduces the newly elected members of the CSM.