Is in-service training optional or compulsory?
Education and training of judges are voluntary. But on the other side there is stated in the article 30 paragraph 7 of the Act on Judges and Lay Judges No. 385/2000 Coll. that: “A judge shall be responsible for deepening his/her specialist knowledge and, according to circumstances, for using offered possibilities for training. A judge is obliged to contribute through his/her own expertise and skills to the professional preparation of apprentice judges and working younger judges. These uses of his/her expertise and skills in professional preparation towards raising and deepening the professional level of the judiciary, of apprentice judges and other court employees is only with his/her consent and if it does not interfere with his/her duties in performing his/her function.” Participation in the training for judges is considered as a part of judges´ work. A judge has the right to provision of conditions for systematic and cost-free education throughout the entire period of exercising his
