Criminal justice

As part of the effort to tackle chronic drawbacks, the Justice Ministry is expected in the coming days to present a package of measures to speed up the administration of criminal justice.

While regulations regarding adjournments due to illness and lawyers' unfulfilled commitments will be significantly stricter, the package of changes includes steps to deter frivolous litigation.

The last public defender of rights, Mária Patakyová, left her post five months ago and no replacement has been chosen - a sign of the lack of esteem in which politicians hold the office.

Prosecutor Dubravko Campara told the Bosnian state court on Tuesday that it is requesting a one-month custody remand for Hamza Cardaklija, who it accuses of posting a comment on social media in which he mentioned shootings in schools in the US and allegedly said that he would do the same in the Sarajevo area.

The Norwegian National Security Authority announced that two people were arrested in parallel in Oslo and in Bulgaria on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist organization.

BTA reported, citing the Associated Press, that the detainee in Bulgaria was identified as a Norwegian student.

Ljubljana – The police dealt with the fewest criminal offences in the last ten years in 2021, while at the same time recording the highest clearance rate in the last decade, shows the 2021 report on police work that the outgoing government debated on Wednesday.

Ljubljana – Former police commissioners Andrej Jurič in Anton Travner, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) director Petra Grah Lazar and her predecessor Andrej Lamberger denied political interference in the work of the police and police staffing as they were heard before a parliamentary inquiry into political interference in the police on Friday.

Melbourne has the longest lockdown

Elated Sydneysiders celebrated the end of almost four months of coronavirus lockdown on Oct. 11, putting behind them a period of "blood, sweat and no beers" in Australia's largest city.

Sydney's more than five million residents were subjected to a 106-day lockdown, designed to limit the march of the highly transmissible Delta variant.

Australia has imposed some of the most draconian lockdown measures in the world

Australia has imposed some of the most draconian lockdown measures in the world