HCJ report on domestic violence
31/05/2014 00:00
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After the HCJ made a 1-year inspection to 28 courts for identifying
their role in preventing domestic crime, the HCJ warned for further
legal amends and sees with concern that victims don’t have sufficient
access to justice, since there is a low number of complaints.
The HCJ says that the entire protective system for domestic violence ieeds to be improved.
Many courts and police stations, which are the first contact with the victims, fill the complaint forms and presents them at court, and stop following the trial. In most fo the cases, the cases sent by the Police are suspended, because the victims often show lack of will to continue.
The HCJ raises the concern about the solid data on domestic violence and their discrepancy with other institutions, which makes it more difficult to verify the cases, monitoring them and making a data analyze.
Different courts have followed different registration practices, by making it more difficult to pull out statistics, and by hampering the trial when judges resign from cases they had started. The electronic system of the integrated management of cases is not suitable for the specific registration of domestic violence cases, according to the HCJ.
The HCJ sees as problematic the system which casts lots for chosing the judges, which makes some of these cases go to judges specialized for family issues, and some to other judges.
The HCJ says that courts have systematically violated the procedural deadlines for giving protection orders. From 2689 cases, 183 have been delayed.
HCJ says that 655 of the cases are suspended after the victims withdraw, especially in Diber, Kruje, Kurbin, Tirana and Pogradec.
HCJ says there is a very low number of complaints, which shows there is a problem with the justice access. 17 of these 28 courts haven’t had a single report.
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