13 minutes agoOver 236 thousand subjects in Kosovo courts pending to be resolved
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)More than 236 thousand different substances in domestic courts are expected to be resolved. Pristina's Constitutional Court leads with more than one outstanding subject. According to Judiciary Council data, in the January-June period of 2022, 236 thousand and 329 outstanding substances were registered in the courts. Kosovo Judiciary Council [...]
The Kosovo Judiciary Council in its report for 2022 stresses that the Supreme Court, Special Chambers, Courts of Appeals and Foundations have had more than 295 thousand substances, where 222 thousand are inherited, while 73 thousand and 276 are accepted.
Procrastination of subjects according to the Kosovo Institute for Justice is taking place because of their failure to address them within legal terms, as well as the inadequate management of subjects on the part of judges.
Not only on administrative, criminal and commercial issues, but also the inadequate planning of the KDR with the distribution of judges to courts based on the number of subjects. In this direction, the KRK would have to place more emphasis on planning to distribute judges to courts based on the subjects and accountability of judges for their subjects and neglect that fail to fulfill their” duties, the IKD says.
According to the KDR, one of the reasons for the collection was the lack of judges in several departments.
However, Ehat Miftaraj of the IKD says that the KDR has succeeded in increasing the number of judges but that performance and efficiency has marked decline.
“Paralyse with the number of increase judges we've seen happening the opposite, instead of increasing the number of solved materials has occurred. This can't be taken as a reason that only because of the small number of judges we have increased subjects”, Ehat Miftaraj from IKD said.
While Albana Hasani, from the FOL Movement, says one of the causes of collecting materials in courts is the reduction of wages and the resignation of judges from the tribunal in the country's north. According to her, there is no functioning judiciary in the north.
“The issue of lowering salaries which decouples and demestifies judges to carry out the work effectively and encourages them to move into another profession as it is in the lawyer, so where they have the most convenient”, Hasani said.
According to KDR data, about 400 judges work in Kosovo courts, out of them 299 in the Foundation Court, while civil servants are a thousand and five hundred and seven. The most pending court is the Constitutional Court, branch in Pristina, with over 63 thousand and 700 subjects, followed by Prizren with more than 15 thousand and 700 and Ferizaj with over 15 thousand and 60 materials.
