The predictions that the transitional left would try to use the mandate of the Robert Golob government to increase its grip on our democratic society are coming true. If the National Assembly approves the proposed amendments to the Courts Act and the Judicial Service Act, the public will no longer be able to access final …
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On Tuesday, the world marked the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. At exactly noon, sirens sounded in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing that began when Bosnian Serb troops invaded Srebrenica, a supposedly protected town, on the fateful 11th of July. The memory of the crime and tragedy …
On Thursday, members of the National Assembly discussed a bill on the reimbursement of fines for breaches of ordinances issued during the Covid-19 epidemic. The coalition took a position on the proposal, but at the same time, they made statements which, as the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, also said herself during …
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European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders is currently on a visit to Slovenia. While here, he met with our Minister of Justice, Dominika Švarc Pipan. According to the press release about the meeting, where the two interlocutors apparently agreed that “it is essential to ensure the independence of judges in the reform of the judiciary,” …
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Can you imagine a Minister of Justice in a developed country of the European Union hugging the mayor of that country’s capital city, against whom a whole bunch of criminal proceedings are pending and about whom the public read wiretap transcripts (which were later destroyed) about how he gave a young mother an ultimatum that …
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“We will soon face a similar staffing crisis in the judiciary as we currently have in the healthcare sector,” said Minister of Justice Dominika Švarc Pipan in an interview with the newspaper Dnevnik, to which one of her former professors, Dr Miha Pogačnik, also responded. According to Pogačnik, there should be no crisis in the …
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“My thesis is that this was arranged by one or both sides. This is not only a slip, it is a huge slip of both protocols, and a huge provocation and failure in terms of international law,” international lawyer Dr Miha Pogačnik commented on the display of the rainbow flag instead of a Slovenian one …
“Putin cannot win this war, and Ukraine must win this war. That is completely clear,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, in her speech at the Bled Strategic Forum. The visitors applauded approvingly, as expected – with two exceptions. Slovenian Minister of Justice Dominika Švarc Pipan and Slovenian Minister of Finance …
“Every accused person has the right to defence before the Hague tribunal, which must be provided to him. The fact that someone has defended somebody else does not in itself disqualify them. Even at the Nuremberg Trials, every defendant had to have a lawyer. However, in the case of a potential minister of justice, this …
