The working conditions in the Basic Court in Pljevlja are unsatisfactory in terms of the working space and the equipment of the courtrooms and other rooms, but despite this fact, the judges achieved solid results in the previous year.
This was stated by the president of the Basic Court in the work report for the previous year Marina Jelovac.
"Working conditions in the court, looking at the work space and the equipment of the courtrooms and other rooms, are unsatisfactory. There are no special rooms for hearing minors, rooms for prosecutors, lawyers and other parties that can be adapted in the court building, but the corridor of the upper floor of the building is used as a waiting room. Access for disabled people is not provided, nor can it be provided in the existing building due to the size and layout of the rooms. "Persons in wheelchairs can only approach the court porter's office, but not court offices and courtrooms," she states.
In 2021, work was carried out on the installation of a thermal facade on the building where the court premises are located, which improved the working conditions.
"In the next period, in order to improve the working conditions of judges and court employees, a generator should be installed due to frequent problems with electricity supply and the sidewalks around the courthouse should be fixed," the report states.
In the reporting year, the court occasionally had problems with the use of the Judicial Information System (PRIS), due to low Internet speeds, and they also complained that most of the data related to the work of the court, which is required by the Judicial Council and the Supreme Court, I can't get out of that system.
"The data entered in PRIS completely agree with the data from the manual registers kept by this court. "Problems in operation are also created by dilapidated telephone installations in the court building, so that the telephone lines were occasionally interrupted, which made it impossible to send and receive via e-mail and fax," the report states.
It is noted that the court did not have any problems in cooperation with the police, who promptly executed all orders related to bringing persons to the main trial or to a prison for the purpose of serving a prison sentence, as well as orders to issue warrants for persons who are on the run. There were no problems in cooperation with other state and local authorities, as well as with court experts, who duly responded to court summons and delivered findings and opinions to judges in a timely manner.
In 2021, there were 2.230 cases in the Basic Court in Pljevlja, of which 1.847 were received during the year, and 383 were transferred from the previous year.
1.669 cases, or 75,42 percent, were resolved, and 544, or 24,58 percent, remained unresolved, while 17 cases were delegated to another court.
In relation to the influx, 91,20 percent of the cases were resolved. Most of the pending cases, which were received in 2021, as stated in the report, were received in the last quarter, so there were no procedural assumptions that they would be completed.
The average monthly inflow of cases in 2021 was 153,92 cases. Compared to 2020, the inflow is higher by 25,59 cases, or by about 16 percent.
Judges were burdened with an average of 446 cases each, and they completed an average of 333,8 cases.
The report states that last year the judges of the Basic Court showed an enviable attitude towards their work and demonstrated appropriate expertise in performing their duties, but that due to insufficient caseload, they did not achieve the annual norm.
At the end of the reporting period, one criminal case older than three years and three cases of execution of criminal sanctions remained unresolved, in two of which the execution of the criminal sanction was postponed for medical reasons, while in one case it was about a foreign citizen.
According to the transfer, the president of the court, Marina Jelovac, achieved the norm of 97,81 percent. Due to the function covered by her, the annual norm was reduced by 30 percent. Almost 83 percent of its judgments were confirmed by higher courts, 12,2 percent were overturned, and 4,8 percent were confirmed/amended/rescinded.
It also says that she is a judge Sanja Anicic achieved 99,94 percent of the annual norm. More than 76 percent of her verdicts were upheld, and 20,9 percent were overturned.
Judge Ljiljana Popović it achieved 74,99 percent of the annual norm. It has a high percentage of violated verdicts - 90,91 percent, and 4,45 percent of amended and canceled verdicts, according to the report.
Judge Radojka Marjanović, until the termination of office by the decision of the Judicial Council on June 28, 2021, achieved 29,13 percent of the annual norm and had more than 77 percent of confirmed verdicts, and 15,5 percent of its verdicts were annulled.
According to the report, the judge Branko Pejović until July 7, when the assignment of cases to him was suspended due to temporary inability to work for health reasons, he achieved more than 47 percent of the annual norm. The higher court confirmed 61,76 percent of his judgments, and canceled 29,4 percent.
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