Court of cassation

Bucharest, Mar 9 /Agerpres/ - The judges with the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) voted in favour of the USR PLUS 2020 Alliance, announced, on Friday, the chairman of the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS), Dacian Ciolos, on his facebook page. "Now you have who to vote with! The 2020 Alliance goes to the EP elections!

The Constitutional Court of Bulgaria has declared provisions of the Judicial System Act unconstitutional, said the President of the National Assembly, Tsveta Karayancheva, Focus News Agency reports. The repealed provision stipulated that judges should be removed from office if they were charged with a crime committed in the exercise of their judicial functions.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader announced on Thursday that he will start the appointment procedure for the new Prosecutor General of Romania. "I will go to the Ministry and start the appointment procedure for the new Prosecutor General.

The amendments to the laws of Justice contravene the institutional architecture established by the Constitution, the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) specifies on Wednesday, referring to the emergency ordinance adopted a day ago by the Executive.

For a month now the campaign of Ilustrovana Politika, adviser to editor-in-chief Goran Kozic and outside collaborator Djordje Martic has been underway, proclaiming as innocent the defendants in case of murder Slavko Curuvija, claiming that there is not enough evidence against them, which would probably mean that the court should released those accused.

On 13th of November, the newly elected constitutional judges solemnly took their oath of office, reports BNT. 

After the elections, Pavlina Panova and Nadezhda Dzhelepova received the support of their colleagues from the judges' quota of the Suptreme Judicial Council.

A chamber of the Court of Cassation has ruled for divorce in a case in which the husband had frequently invited his friends over for dinner. 

The Prosecutors' Section of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) on Tuesday greenlighted to the proposal of the Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, to appoint Giorgiana Hosu as deputy chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).

The High Court of Cassation and Justice granted on Monday a request made by the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) to reopen the prosecution in a case aimed at Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Liviu Dragnea.

The Supreme Court granted the DNA's request to reopen the in rem prosecution and only in relation to the offenses of abuse of office against public interest.

Turkey's Court of Cassation has ruled for the release of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, while upholding his jail sentence.