The Council on Reforms in the Judiciary is set to approve Monday the methodology that will be used to clean up the legal system, according to Justice Minister Bojan Marichikj.
The process is meant to restore citizens’ trust in the system, Minister Marichikj told a news conference held to mark the first 100 days of the new government.
“Long hearings, countless postponements, inefficient proceedings,” Marichikj listed the flaws of the judiciary. “This is why in the first 100 days, through an intense collaboration with the Judicial Council and the Council of Public Prosecutors, we developed a methodology according to which the judiciary and the prosecution will be filtered next year.”
The Justice Minister said the methodology was the best way for judges and prosecutors “to clean up their own ranks themselves.”
All judges or prosecutors who were unprofessional in conducting trials or had broken the law will be removed from their posts. Special focus will be given to high-level corruption and organized crime, according to Marichikj.
