VUKOVAR, Oct 24 (Hina) - Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic said in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Friday that the normative part of the justice reform was nearing completion.
VUKOVAR, Oct 24 (Hina) - Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic
Marinovic said in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Friday
that the normative part of the justice reform was nearing
completion. #L#
The minister said that the Inheritance Act, the Distress Act, the
Penal Code and the Civil Procedure Act would soon go into force.
"What the Zagreb-Split highway means for road construction, the
Civil Procedure Act means for the judiciary," Anticevic Marinovic
said, adding that the direct message of the said law was that
citizens would no longer be required to attend court about a dozen
times because court proceedings would end after two or three
hearings.
After the new laws become effective, the minister said, Croatia's
judiciary will finally get rid of the burden of numerous backlog
cases. Of 1.3 million such cases, more than 900,000 refer to land-
registry cases, inheritance and distress proceedings, the minister
said.
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