ZAGREB, Nov 30 (Hina) - Croatian courts have a backlog of more than one million cases, it was said at a conference of the Croatian Association of Judges (UHS), held in Zagreb on Friday under the slogan "For a More Efficient
Judiciary". Supreme Court president Ivica Crnic said some cases could have been solved with more diligence and social sensitivity, but concluded a more efficient judiciary required more budgetary funds. UHS president Vladimir Gredelj was self-critical in his address to the meeting. "We are responsible for more than one million unsolved cases and for the slow court proceedings, for not having raised our voice when many highly competent judges were leaving the judiciary and for competent staff being banned from the judiciary for decades. We and generations before us are responsible for those who agreed to be the long hand of politics and those who are still doing it," Gredelj said. Justic
ZAGREB, Nov 30 (Hina) - Croatian courts have a backlog of more than
one million cases, it was said at a conference of the Croatian
Association of Judges (UHS), held in Zagreb on Friday under the
slogan "For a More Efficient Judiciary".
Supreme Court president Ivica Crnic said some cases could have been
solved with more diligence and social sensitivity, but concluded a
more efficient judiciary required more budgetary funds.
UHS president Vladimir Gredelj was self-critical in his address to
the meeting. "We are responsible for more than one million unsolved
cases and for the slow court proceedings, for not having raised our
voice when many highly competent judges were leaving the judiciary
and for competent staff being banned from the judiciary for
decades. We and generations before us are responsible for those who
agreed to be the long hand of politics and those who are still doing
it," Gredelj said.
Justice Minister Ingrid Anticevic Marinovic said a judiciary with
more than one million unsolved cases was not and could not be
independent and the purpose of the conference should be to find
solutions for that situation and not justify it.
Participants in the conference welcomed the minister's statement
that the incumbent authorities wanted to help the judiciary regain
its self-confidence and the citizens' trust.
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