The Judicial Academy, in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Republic Public Prosecutor's Office, organized a two-day workshop "Writing indictments" on November 27 and 28, 2025, at the "Tami" hotel in Niš. This workshop was attended by public prosecutors from basic and higher public prosecutor's offices from the territories of the Kragujevac, Belgrade and Niš appeals.

The goals of this workshop are to help prosecutors and assistant prosecutors to concisely and logically organize facts and legal principles, to better understand the process of legal reasoning and writing indictments, as well as to improve representation skills. By writing clearer, better quality and more consistent indictments, this program aims to develop and strengthen the application of best practices.

The topics covered at this workshop were:
• understanding the indictment and charges;
• the prosecutor's role and writing guidelines;
• purpose, structure and style of writing acts of public prosecutors;
• methodology of legal reasoning and informal order of evidence;
• application of the FIRAC method;
• sentence of the indictment;
• explanation of the indictment.

The lecturers at this workshop were:
Miroslav Krkelić, chief prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Subotica;
Dragoljub Miladinović, Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime;
Siniša Važić, judge of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade (retired);
Ana Stamenić, judge of the High Court in Novi Sad;
and Goran Jović, Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime.