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Study: Unjudged cases are a major problem for justice in Albania

2023-01-30 22:42:11Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Study: Unjudged cases are a major problem for justice in Albania
Study: Unjudged cases are a major problem for justice in Albania

A study by the Institute for Public and Legal Studies notes that a high number of cases in the Supreme Court is a major challenge, but the main difficulties are facing the courts of appeal.

The Institute for Public and Legal Studies (ISPL) published today an observation on the work of justice institutions, where an increase in the workload of judges is noticeable, due to the stock of cases over the years as well as due to the vetting process.

As a result of this process, more than half of the justice workers, who were examined, have left the system.

The monitoring revealed that the Supreme Court has been more effective after completing its bench with judges, handling the multi-year stock of court cases more quickly.

The project manager, Ardian Dhima, says that the main obstacle in dealing with the stock of cases in the courts is the insufficiency of human resources with magistrates in the face of numerous shortages in the system.

"Due to the many vacancies, a very big problem has been created with backlogs. Almost all justice institutions are struggling with this problem. Things take their time, no matter how much pressure is put on them. Some time is needed for the measures to be implemented, but it is important that the steps are taken in the quality and direction foreseen by the reform strategy", says Mr. Dhima.

The reduction of the stock has been influenced by the decrease in the pace of work and decisions in the courts of appeal, as well as the reduction of recourses to the Supreme Court, according to the monitoring of the Institute.

However, the stock of cases in the high court, experts claim, continues to remain large, over 29,000 cases, and is considered the main challenge for this court.

Courts of first instance and appeals, criminal and civil, are trying to reduce the length of trials, but more difficulties in these efforts are being encountered by the courts of appeal.

"The Assembly has increased the budgets on justice institutions. Although this year is a year of crisis, this is the year that justice has been budgeted more than ever, mainly in terms of efficiency and transparency", says MP Klotilda Bushka, head of the parliamentary committee on laws.

The workload of judges with cases in the Supreme Court and other courts remains high, according to the study, while the prosecution, on the other hand, does not show a satisfactory level of proactive investigation, despite the measures taken to increase the work in this direction.

In the meantime, a new separate challenge is the implementation of the new judicial map, which was thought of as one more facility, but which has currently put the appellate courts in difficulty.

"A new judicial map has also been created. Now, the big question is how this process of putting the new judicial map into operation will be managed, which was thought of as one of the first solutions to the problem of stocks, the evasion of court cases. There are some institutions here that are moving at a slightly faster pace, due to their nature", says Mr. Dhima.

While the president of the High Judicial Council, Naureda Llagami, says that the justice system is still not in a normal situation, as it has lost half of its human resources, but the results are coming step by step from a better management of the created situation, which brings vetting and from the new judicial map.

"We are convinced that with the new judicial map we will make a fair distribution of the load with human resources. Starting from this fairer distribution, then we will cost more clearly what the expenses are, who costs us more and where more will be invested", says Ms. Llagami.

The monitoring of justice budgets revealed that the structure of expenses has preserved the pre-reform features, where salary expenses predominate, while capital expenses have decreased from 2016 onwards, but auxiliary expenses, including expertise, are negligible.

"In the budget of the judicial system, the expenses for personnel have increased by at least 50-75 percent, the expenses for services, such as expertise and experts, related to judicial processes, are almost at the former levels", the study states.

According to the researchers, the performance indicators are related to the distribution of resources, the organization of the judiciary and the practices of judicial personnel.

In the entire reformed system of justice, the lack of human resources is noticed due to the reductions brought about by the vetting process, the opening of many positions in new institutions, as well as the non-fulfillment of the criteria by young judges, who are at the beginning of their careers. /VOA


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