TWO MEMBERS OF STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL HAND IN RESIGNATIONS

ZAGREB, March 9 (Hina) - two members of the State Judicial Council, which decides on the appointment of judges, announced Thursday their resignations because of the poor work of the Council. Asking for a word outside of the agenda at a round-table conference "Croatian judiciary on the turn of the millennium" which began in Zagreb on Thursday, professor of Zagreb's Law Faculty Davor Krapac said he would motion to the Parliament on his resignation as member of the State Judicial Council, because the Council had "made too many wrong decisions". Krapac recalled that the Constitutional Court had so far rescinded some thirty decisions made by the DSV. He stressed that his resignation had nothing to do with the recent call by Justice Minister Stjepan Ivanisevic for Council members to hand in their resignations. Professor of the Split Law Faculty, Ante Caric, however, complied with the call. Although, he claimed, he had not voted for the numerous illegal decisions of the Council, Caric said he bore a part of responsibility for decisions which had "caused bad consequences". One of the reasons for his resignation, he said, was also the impossibility for the minority, to which he belonged, which tried to consistently implement only expert criteria, to affect decisions. "I believe that I can contribute to a start of settling the situation in the judiciary with my resignation," Caric said. (hina) lml jn