At its Human Rights meeting on 15-17 September, the Committee of Ministers examined the status of execution of the Jevremović v. group of judgments, concerning the excessive length of different types of judicial proceedings and the lack of an effective remedy in this respect.
The Committee positively noted that because of the sustained measures taken since 2011, the domestic courts succeeded in reducing the average length of proceedings and achieved encouraging results with positive clearance rates in all types of proceedings under supervision in this group, with the exception of higher courts in civil proceedings. It underlined the importance of ensuring the long-term consolidation of this progress. Moreover, the Committee recalled that with the entry into force of the 2015 Law on Protection of the Right to Trial within a Reasonable Time, Serbia had introduced a combination of acceleratory and compensatory remedies, which are in principle effective, as also supported by the Convention-compliant evolution of the domestic courts’ case-law with respect to the amounts of compensation awarded.
In the light of the substantial progress achieved and the promising prospects of further improvements, the Committee decided to close their examination of the leading cases Jevremović, Popović and Samardžić and AD Plastika cases. At the same time, it decided to continue the examination of the outstanding questions – concerning the excessive length of civil proceedings and the elimination of backlog – under the standard supervision procedure in the Kajganić case.
Final resolution CM/ResDH(2025)262
