High Judicial Council

The Consultative Council of European Judges, CCJE, a Council of Europe advisory body on issues relating to the independence and competence of judges, has supported Serbian judges in their criticisms of proposed changes to the constitution, the head of the Serbian judges' association, Dragana Boljevic, noted on Monday.

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic.

PM Ana Brnabic has attended the first meeting of the Coordination Body implementation of recommendations of the Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO).

The meeting was also attended by Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic.

Tanjug is reporting this on Tuesday, citing Council of Europe's anti-corruption body.

Serbia has not implemented in a satisfactory manner any of the thirteen recommendations provided by the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body GRECO (Group of States against Corruption) to the country in July 2015, states a new compliance report published on Thursday.

They include amendments to the laws on traffic safety, police, and public order and peace.

The first sitting of the spring session started with a ceremony: the Serbian Army Honor Guard placed in front of the House of the National Assembly, and the sounding of the national anthem.

A former judge who controversially returned a passport to the Serbian tycoon Miroslav Miskovic, so that he could travel to the UK, has welcomed the decision of the High Judicial Council to withdraw the public warning it issued to him in 2015.

The latest report of the UN Human Rights Committee has criticized Serbia for not naming a War Crimes Prosecutor, for allowing suppression of freedom of expression and for inaction over persistent hate crimes.

Albanian opposition MPs refused to take part in a vote on a key law sought by the EU on Thursday, after accusing Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama of deliberately turning the country into a "narco state".

New research conducted by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy and BIRN says that major branches of the Serbian justice system, police and judiciary remain influenced by corruption.

The Belgrade Lawyers Association has rejected the request of Nata Mesarovic, former president of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the High Judicial Council, to enter the register of lawyers.

BELGRADE - Around 120,000 trials have been postponed in the two months since the start of the lawyer strike in Serbia, President of the Supreme Court and High Judicial Council Dragomir Milojevic has told the daily Politika.

The precise number of the postponed trials is not known because not all courts have kept records on this, he noted.