CRIKVENICA, Oct 20 (Hina) - Responsibility for 1.34 million backlog cases lies not only with the judiciary but other state institutions that cannot offer citizens the protection of their rights as well, a Croatian judicial official
said at the end of an international conference on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. Ana Garacic, a Supreme Court judge, told the conference in Crikvenica that judges, due to over one million unsolved cases, were wrongly being depicted in public as idlers, despite the fact that annually they solved just as many cases. One of the reasons for this many lawsuits, on average by every other Croat, is "the inefficiency of other state institutions that don't offer citizens the necessary protection, which prompts them (citizens) to seek it in court," said Garacic. The final documents of the Crikvenica conference, which was organised by the Croatian Helsinki
CRIKVENICA, Oct 20 (Hina) - Responsibility for 1.34 million backlog
cases lies not only with the judiciary but other state institutions
that cannot offer citizens the protection of their rights as well, a
Croatian judicial official said at the end of an international
conference on the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.
Ana Garacic, a Supreme Court judge, told the conference in
Crikvenica that judges, due to over one million unsolved cases,
were wrongly being depicted in public as idlers, despite the fact
that annually they solved just as many cases.
One of the reasons for this many lawsuits, on average by every other
Croat, is "the inefficiency of other state institutions that don't
offer citizens the necessary protection, which prompts them
(citizens) to seek it in court," said Garacic.
The final documents of the Crikvenica conference, which was
organised by the Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, the
Croatian Legal Centre, and a Canadian association of judges, will
be released next week.
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