Specialized courts will be liquidated
The Parliament passed a bill to liquidate the specialized courts of law in first reading. After the law takes effect, all the cases will be examined by common law courts that will include specialized judges, Info-Prim Neo reports.
The specialized, economic and military courts will continue to work until the cases under examination are dealt with. The issue of liquidation will be discussed after all the powers and cases of the specialized courts are transferred to the common law courts.
The Economic Court of Appeals might be renamed the Competent Court of Appeals. The Economic Panel of the Supreme Court of Justice will disappear as no distinction will be made between the civil and economic disputes. Thus, the appeals against the decisions passed by the common law courts of appeal will be examined by the Civil and Administrative Panel.
According to the authors of the bill, the criminal cases examined by the military cases differ only by the persons who committed the offenses described in the special articles of the Penal Code. This category includes the soldiers, sergeants and officers of the National Army, the personnel of the Carabineer Troops, the Emergencies Department, and the Security and Information Service, and other persons.
Within six months of the final adoption of the law, the Government will submit proposals for amending the law on judicial organization so that the judges of the specialized courts be assigned to the common law courts.