OPATIJA, April 11 (Hina) - Judges oppose the introduction of punishable offence according to which judges might be sentenced to five or eight years in prison in case they previously sentence innocent persons or violate laws.
OPATIJA, April 11 (Hina) - Judges oppose the introduction of
punishable offence according to which judges might be sentenced to
five or eight years in prison in case they previously sentence
innocent persons or violate laws. #L#
At a two-day conference in Opatija, a retired judge of the
Constitutional Court, Jadranko Crnic, said on Friday that the
introduction of such an offence would be contrary to the
Constitution and an attack on this profession. Crnic voiced hope
that the sponsor of that draft act would back down on this, as he
said, dangerous proposal.
Commenting on appeals lodged before the Constitutional Court as an
instrument for the protection of fundamental human rights, he
expressed his stand that it was necessary to impose additional
restrictions on the right to file the appeal with that court because
of the fact that the Constitutional Court has been overburdened
with pending cases.
When in early 1990s a possibility for filing a complaint before the
Constitutional Court was introduced, there were only 25 appeals in
the first year in comparison to some 3,000 in 2002.
The symposium in the Adriatic resort gathered about 300 judges,
prosecutors, lawyers, police officers and law professors.
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