Legal professions

BELGRADE - Lawyers across Serbia went on strike on Wednesday, grinding almost the entire judicial system to a halt.

As prosecutors make the final preparations for a criminal trial against dozens of members of Golden Dawn, the Council of Appeals Court Judges on Tuesdsay ruled to extend by an additional six months the pretrial custody of Giorgos Roupakias, a self-professed member of the neofascist party who is charged with the murder of leftist rapper Pavlos Fyssas.

BELGRADE - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic called on lawyers in Serbia not to suspend their work and to continue talks on lump sum taxation with the Ministries of Justice and Finance in the week to come.

No special legislation and no use of public funds are needed to rescue Corpbank (KTB), the Expert Consultative Council on KTB and Bulgaria's ombudsman have agreed.

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There was a banquet organized Wednesday evening in a district of Istanbul in connection with the elections to be held for the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK).

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has veiled incentives for judicial officers in the run up to a key election at Turkey’s top judicial body, prompting the main opposition party’s leader to label the incentives as a “political bribe.”

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has veiled incentives for judicial officers in the run up to a key election at Turkey’s top judicial body, prompting the main opposition party’s leader to label the incentives as a “political bribe.”

A European Commission mission is on a visit to Bulgaria's Sofia this week on occasion of the mechanism for cooperation and verification report due to be released in January.

Experts will meet with Bulgaria's caretaker Minister of Justice, the Chief Prosecutor, as well as with members of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

Our justice system is undergoing a major crisis at the moment with internal tensions, pressures, lynchings and ever-groveling credibility, all of them decomposing justice as if aqua fortis has been spilled over it.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is stepping up its bid to break the alleged dominance of followers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in the judiciary, who it claims are acting as a “parallel state.”