Albanian parliamentary Committee debates on amendments to Justice System Reform laws

06/02/2020 17:43

The Parliamentary Committee on Laws considered today two bills of the Justice System Reform with the aim of providing a new unlocking mechanism in cases when there’s a stalemate in the oath-taking and admission of constitutional judges, such as was recently the matter of the judge Arta Vorpsi.

MP Alket Hyseni said that based on US and EU practices, the written oath is entirely sufficient.

The other bill gives more capacities to the senior justice inspector in acting swiftly for the dismissal or suspension of problematic judges or prosecutors.

Socialist MP Bashkim Fino urged to go beyond sporadic improvements to justice reform law.

“We need not intervene in the law whenever there are problems … but when we get a detailed analysis of the functioning of the justice system reform”, stated Fino.

Former Justice Minister and Justice Reform Architect Fatmir Xhafaj said he had not thought or predicted the evil in the justice system had these dimensions.

“Proactive stances are required by the HJC and HJC ….. These bodies should have reacted strongly about the Kruja judge …… there is definitely a need for analysis of what went wrong the justice reform”, stated amongst other things Xhafaj. /Muhamed Veliu/

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