On 15 April, the Council of Europe presented the Analysis of the legal framework governing the protection of the right to a trial within a reasonable time to the highest courts and the legislators and other relevant national and international organisations who welcomed and supported its relevance.
The purpose of the Analysis was to detect at an early stage any difficulties that may be encountered during the implementation of the laws governing the protection of the right to trial within a reasonable time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on an assessment of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina regarding the excessive length of court proceedings, pointing at their shortcomings providing also a comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of a similar remedy already introduced in Republic of Serbia.
Building on the observations and recommendations envisaged in the Analysis, during the discussion, inter alia, a necessity for harmonisation of adopted/envisaged legal remedies was highlighted especially in respect of the amount of compensation awarded for non-pecuniary damage on the grounds of a breach of the reasonable time.
The Analysis was developed within the project: “Initiative for Legal Certainty and Efficient Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Phase II” implemented by the Council of Europe and funded by the Kingdom of Norway.
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