The Miko Tripalo Centre for Democracy and Law, at the invitation of the Club of Representatives of the Green-Left Coalition, organized a round table on the National Plan for the Development of the Judicial System from 2021 to 2027, in the Croatian Parliament, on April 5, 2022.
The National Judicial System Development Plan from 2021 to 2027 was conceived as a strategic document that should contain medium-term priorities that would improve and optimize processes in the judiciary.
The aim of this round table was to discuss some of the measures proposed in the Draft National Plan and possible proposals and amendments to that document.
The participants of the round table, Neven Mates, Centre Miko Tripalo, Alan Uzelac, Faculty of Law in Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo, Zlata Đurđević, Faculty of Law in Zagreb and Centre Miko Tripalo and Goran Selanec, judge of the Constitutional Court, referred to the following questions:
- Will the proposed measures do enough to increase the efficiency, transparency and accountability of the justice system?
- Are there any functional mechanisms for realizing the responsibility of judges?
- Will the measures in the National Plan solve the issue of slowness in passing judgments?
- Is the public guaranteed the work of the judicial system in accordance with democratic norms?
- What additional reforms are needed to resolve the situation in the judiciary, which were not mentioned in the National Plan?
