NGO Aktiv organised a public debate within its Mitrovica Social Club on the occasion of the first anniversary since the integration of judiciary, Radio kontakt plus reported.
Judge of Kosovo Supreme Court Jelena Krivokapic said perhaps the only and the biggest advantage of integration is that citizens do not have to seek justice before two different courts, i.e. in two different legal systems.
More than two and a half years after the agreement in Brussels on the integration of the judiciary, in October 2017, 42 judges on Serbia’s pay roll and 14 prosecutors were integrated into the Kosovo judicial system. Almost a year after integration, the Basic Court of Mitrovica still remains dysfunctional.
The integrated justice system in northern Kosovo is not fully functional even after six months and citizens face many problems because of it. According to the research of the Advocacy Centre for the Democratic Culture (ACDC), Courts do not have citizens' trust and still do not work in its full capacity, reports Kontakt plus radio.
In a public discussion on Thursday in the Centre for Civil Energy in Mitrovica North, problems of the citizens were mentioned in regards to claiming their rights before the courts.
MP of the Serbian List, Igor Simic says that the Kosovo Judicial system has increased its quality with the integration of Serbian judges, reports Kontakt plus radio.
According to the statement of Serbian List, during the Tuesday’s session of the Assembly Committee on Judicial, Legislative and Constitutional Framework Matters in Pristina, the report was submitted by the President of the Judicial Council, Nexhat Idrizi.
The employees of the Basic Prosecutor’s office, now part of a unified Kosovo justice system, are satisfied with the beginning of work, but they have warned about the big backlog of cases, reports Radio Free Europe (RFE).
Member of the Kosovo Assembly Korab Sejdiu has published the text of a statement recently made before President Hashim Thaci by Serb judges and prosecutors.
N1 first reported that Sejdiu received the signed statements from the Presidency of Kosovo, after filing an official request.
Serbian judges and administrative staff, as well as their Albanian colleagues, came to their workplaces at the Kosovo Basic Court in northern Mitrovica this morning at eight o'clock.
Sometime after eight o'clock and their Albanian colleagues arrived in a bus and under police escort, reports Kossev.
Whether this court today officially started to work, Kossev failed to obtain confirmation.
The Brussels agreement on the judiciary most probably will not be applied on October 17, and Acting President of the High Court in northern Mitrovica Nikola Kabašić says there are more obstacles, reported daily Politika on Friday.
In less than a month in the north of Kosovo, the court and the prosecutor's office should start working; it was agreed in Brussels at the last meeting of Serbian and Kosovo Presidents, Aleksandar Vučić with Hashim Thaçi. The Kosovo Judicial Council undertook all technical actions, candidate admission is done, and now in progress are works for the arrangement of the court building in the northern part of Mitrovica.
Judge of the Basic Court in North Mitrovica Jelena Krivokapić participated in a conference that is part of the project “Consequences of postponing the integration of the judiciary - the situation and perspectives” that was held in the Civic Energy Centre in North Mitrovica on Tuesday.