The Slovenian judiciary is at the forefront in terms of human rights violations in the European Union. A review of rulings of the European Court of Human Rights shows that in the period from Slovenia gaining independence to 2021, the Slovenian judiciary has violated at least one human right in 342 rulings. According to publicly …
“It is scandalous that a suspect who was waiting for his verdict – which was to come the very next day – was sitting in the company of the President of the Supreme Court because they are both avid fans of football – in addition to many other judges, lawyers from shady law firms, business …
“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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“Cinematic: criminal complaint at the end of November, a conviction just three weeks later, and the assaulted woman, who should have been the key witness during the proceedings, does not even know that the process has been initiated, and the convicted man apparently does not even appeal…?! This is really just like a movie! In …
“As a person, a journalist, and a citizen, I am disappointed with the work of this process. The information I have indicates that one well-known family of lawyers is involved in my planned detention. It seems that some politicians from the emerging Gibanje Svoboda party are involved,” Bojan Požar, a journalist and editor of Požareport, told …
Members of the DOOR Association (Association for Children, Fatherhood and the Truth) have been drawing attention to the fact that fathers are discriminated against in divorce proceedings. They have also been pointing out that these procedures are too long and too expensive, and that all this is unacceptable because it causes irreparable emotional, developmental, health …
“There is obvious systemic corruption in favour of classic crime of international proportions present at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia. The European Commission will have more work to do with this than with Poland.” This is Prime Minister Janez Janša’s tweet, published in response to the revealing of names of the judges …
In recent days, the question of where is the diploma of the Supreme Court judge Branko Masleša has caused quite a stir. Namely, Masleša is said to have graduated from the University of Sarajevo in 1975. We made inquiries about this at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sarajevo, as well as at …
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In Slovenia, just like in the rest of the former Yugoslav republics, there was no lustration; the old networks are still predominant – not only in politics and the economy but also in the judiciary. The conservative Prime Minister Janez Janša is a victim of their machinations. In 1988, a military court sentenced him to …
After the prosecution brought rapper Zlatan Čodrić – Zlatko before the investigating judge due to him encouraging violent protests and proposed detention during criminal proceedings, the District Court Judge Marjutka Paškulin rejected the proposal for Čordić’s detention and decided to instead release the political activist. The out-of-court senate of the District Court in Ljubljana has …
The testimony of partisan Anton Cizel has reopened the debate on the extrajudicial murders by the communist authorities and the investigation of post-war crimes. “Investigations need to be concluded, a lot has already been done, but there is still a lot of work ahead of us. All human rights violations need to be investigated, and …
One thing that we should not overlook in the scandal that has recently shaken up the Slovenian judiciary – namely, part of the allegations against Zoran Janković in the trial in the Stožice case became time-barred before the trial had even begun – is the family-prosecution-municipality background which was revealed by the web application of …
