ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic-Marinovic on Tuesday urged the president of the Split County Court to examine if a local judge had broken the law with files pertaining to a war crimes trial, and if the case
should be given to another judge.
ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic-
Marinovic on Tuesday urged the president of the Split County Court
to examine if a local judge had broken the law with files pertaining
to a war crimes trial, and if the case should be given to another
judge. #L#
The Split County State Prosecutor's Office today notified the
Justice Ministry that, while looking into the files regarding the
Lora trial, it had established the absence of documentation
collected through international legal assistance in Belgrade,
which the Justice Ministry had forwarded to the Split County Court
on July 8.
The deputy county state prosecutor notified the justice minister
that he had noticed the documentation was absent on July 16. The
documentation was found in a desk of Judge Slavko Lozina's
courtroom two days later. Lozina was warned that he must submit the
documents to the parties in the case.
The Justice Ministry maintains that Lozina, besides failing to put
the documents in the file, unnecessarily procrastinated in giving
the documents to the parties involved only on July 22.
The justice minister in today's note reminded Split County Court
Igor Benzon she had warned him that Lozina had contacted her
ministry as late as June 6 for international legal assistance in
inviting witnesses from Yugoslavia to testify. That was too late to
ensure safe arrivals for mid-June hearings, she said.
The minister urged Benzon to examine the allegations, establish if
judiciary rule-book regulations regarding files had been breached,
and if Judge Lozina should be exempted from the Lora trial.
(hina) ha