Constitutional Court of Slovenia

The Constitutional Court has released statistics regarding individual applications, indicating that a majority of the decisions it has handed down regarding violations of constitutional rights relate to the right to a fair trial. 

Moldova's Constitutional Court said in its decision on Tuesday  there are "circumstances justifying the initiation by the Parliament of the procedure of suspension of the president", opening the door for the suspension of Dodon.

The Constitutional Court deemed that his failure to approve the appointment of a new defence minister meant he had fallen short of his constitutional duties.

A former Turkish judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Rıza Türmen, wrote a piece titled "A 10-question guide to evaluate the constitution," for the news website t24.com.tr, where he refers to a distinction German jurist Carl Schmitt has made between constitutions as "resilient to dictatorships and non-resilient to dictatorships." 

The excessiveness of arrangements and discharges conducted with state of emergency decrees is drawing more criticism. The government was granted this opportunity by Constitutional Court decision number 2016/159. 

Albania's Constitutional court on Thursday opened the way towards the vetting of around 800 judges and prosecutors in terms of their professional ability, moral integrity, and level of independence from organised crime, corruption, and political officials after dismissing objections to the new "vetting law'.

The foundations for the new Constitution were laid already in 1998, with what is termed the writers' constitution, a document drawn up under the leadership of the Slovenian Writers' Association.

The initiative was picked up by the DEMOS coalition of parties, which presented in March 1990 its own version which drew strongly on the writers' document.

To call a state democratic and governed by rule of law, the presence of independent and impartial judiciary and judges is necessary, the president of Turkey's Constitutional Court stated in a speech attended by the country's president.

When Turkey's Constitutional Court took a fateful decision on Feb. 25 to release imprisoned journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, the Western media hailed it. Here was the proof that at least some checks-and-balances still existed in Turkey, as there is some "independent judiciary" left.

Turkish Constitutional Court has violated the constitution in a decision that paved the way for the release of two jailed Cumhuriyet journalists, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an told journalists during a visit to the Turkish Embassy resident in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

The decision by the Constitutional Court on the release of jailed journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül was not a surprise. It is in line with the top court's other verdicts on human rights matters.