Minister of Justice Boris Susko (Smer-SD) goes to take the competences of the Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) of the Slovak Republic and goes to the Judicial Council. This is made up of judges who will judge their own colleagues. This system will either be dysfunctional, or the Senates will only go in the government line. At Friday’s press conference, opposition MP Mária Kolíková (SaS) said this.
Whether the judge has been guilty of or not the NSS SR is currently deciding. The Ministry of Justice wants to take a large part of this competence and hand it over to the Judicial Council by draft amendment to the Act on Judges and Judges. It will determine which judges will be in disciplinary habits. “There were comments from both judges and non -governmental organizations that the system that is proven is proven. (…) What is strange is that it is going to be selected among the judges of district and regional courts, as it was in the past and proved to be dysfunctional,” Kolíková stated.
At the same time, according to Petíková, there will be no regular evaluation of judges. “It will be enough if the judge is evaluated once when he enters office,” Pototkla. MEP also criticizes the change that the judge will not have to speak more languages in her career procedure. In the selection procedure She will not be able to look back in, who was successful because candidates will be able to anonymize their data.
Kolíková considers these changes to be a step back in the quality and justice of the judiciary or the transparency of the selection procedures and takes the judge of a specialized criminal judge for their protection. “Why do they deprive them of protection? Perhaps the government does not want to act and impartially? Kolíková said.
On Friday, MEPs discussed the draft amendment to the Act on Judge and Judges on Friday, according to which the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic would as a collective body could make disciplinary proposals for judges. This would replace the current authorization of the President of the Judicial Council, who has this competence in his hands.
Minister of Justice Boris Susko (Smer-SD) rejects criticism of the deputy and ex-minister of justice Maria Kolik (SaS) in connection with the amendment to the Act on Judges and Judges. She rejects her attacks on the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic. He stressed that The amendment is to bring a reorganization of disciplinary action and composition of disciplinary senates, because the system is now set unfairly.
“Today the disciplinary procedure system is set up so that it is one -stage and It concerns not only judges but also prosecutors, notaries and bailiffs. If the Disciplinary Senate decides to impose a disciplinary punishment, with one exception when it comes to deprivation of office, in other cases these judges or even prosecutors, notaries or bailiffs cannot appeal, they cannot have to review this decision of one single Senate that decides alone in one degree”Susko said at Friday’s press conference.
According to the Minister, this system is unfair and incorrect. He refuses to say that judges may feel safe. “According to our knowledge and information, they certainly cannot feel safe, since they cannot even defend themselves. The exminister talks about a hammer for judges, but what she has introduced in the right judiciary by establishing the Supreme Administrative Court and doing disciplinary proceedings in administrative court, she was a one -stage, a hammer for judges,” He thinks the minister. “And when someone is uncomfortable, they condemn him in one stage, and if he doesn’t suit them, they will free him without being able to appeal,” he added.
Susko explained that According to the proposal, judges or prosecutors, notaries or bailiffs will be members of the disciplinary senates, or as awarded in the Sentiles “whether from the general courts or from the prosecutor’s office or from the notarial chamber or from the Chamber of Executor”. According to him, it is people who know the system and can evaluate whether someone has committed a disciplinary offense. “And who else is to be involved in the creation of databases from which such judges will be selected, if not the Judicial Council itself as a constitutional body of judicial legitimacy?” asks the minister.
