New executive pledges to ensure continuity and finality of reforms in justice

30.07.2015 13:01
2016
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The new Government aims to ensure the continuity and finality of reforms in the justice sector so as to reform the prosecution service, exclude the political influence and increase transparency in the legal system, IPN reports, quoting the Cabinet’s government program.

The future Cabinet intends to ensure the efficient implementation of the justice sector reform strategy for 2011-2016 and to strengthen its results. Another objective is to optimize the structure of the courts of law and to create specialized courts to ensure the quality of decisions and the efficient random distribution of cases, improve administration and optimize the costs for maintaining courts of law.

The program highlights the necessity of improving the mechanism for naming and promoting judges and of reviewing the procedural norms and the norms of organizing the judicial system for ensuring the internal independence of judges and excluding interference from outside in the case examination process.

Another priority of the executive is to decrease the length of trials and to reduce to a minimum the need for the sides to be present at the trial. The summoning process will be modernized, while the forced execution procedures will be documentarily simplified. The judiciary practice will be unified and the rules for explaining the court decisions for ensuring the right to a fair trial will be reformed.

As to the reformation of the prosecution bodies, political influence will be excluded and transparency in their work will be increased. Steps will be taken to ensure the putting into practice of the EU standards.

The new Government’s program envisions the amendment of the national legislation, development of comprehensive policies for preventing and combing all forms of violence and creation of a mechanism for supporting the victims of violence and supervising the implementation of restraining orders. The judiciary examination system will be strengthened by developing alternative judiciary examinations and creating modern infrastructure for performing examinations.