Legal procedure

The prosecution on Monday urged the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court to quash the verdict acquitting Nenad Perovic of sexual abuse in the village of Dobrasina, near Rogatica, during wartime in 1992.

The first-instance verdict in May this year cleared Perovic of helping another, unidentified Bosnian Serb soldier rape a woman in Dobrasina in August 1992.

Kahro Vejzovic's defence appealed to the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday to revise the verdict convicting him of torturing captured Serb civilians in Stupari between June and September 1992 and acquit him of all the charges.

It would not be premature to say that given the way parties have been dealing with Greece's constitutional review so far, the procedure should have been skipped altogether. 

The issues that are being left untouched outnumber the changes being promoted by the process.

Sofia. President Rumen Radev asked the Constitutional Court to declare some provisions of the amendments to the Administrative Procedure Code as unconstitutional and not in line with international treaties, his press office said. He emphasises on the principle of public court hearings and everyone's right to have one's case publicly examined.

As the death toll from last month's disastrous wildfires on the outskirts of Attica rose to 96, a judicial investigation into who or what was responsible for the extent of the tragedy - one of the worst in Greece's modern history - has been quickly gathering pace. 

A judge has recused himself from the case against a prominent Turkish press freedoms lawyer on trial for criticizing the Turkish justice system on the day a verdict was due.

The decision establishes that databases from the (telephone) base stations had been obtained in a lawful manner and can be used as evidence.

Mirjana Piljic, a spokeswoman of the Appellate Court, told this on Tuesday to Insajder.

A prosecutor at the UN court in The Hague said she will appeal against the transfer to Belgrade of the case against two Serbian Radical Party officials who are charged with contempt of court.

A New York jury in the trial of a Turkish banker accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions
showed signs of division on Dec. 22 as it ended its third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

A New York jury on Dec. 21 ended its second day of deliberations without a verdict in the trial of a Turkish banker accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions.