Justice remains a top concern

TIRANA, April 21 – Justice is daily on the agenda of the news, politics and also its institutions too.
Fighting corruption and bringing justice to be trusted by the people remain main areas of concern in the country and also of the international institutions and countries assisting post-communist Albania.
Last week, judges held their national conference to discuss their issues of concern and also how to cope with a loud cry from almost everybody in the country.
Yes, almost all because the country president, Bujar Nishani, also head of the High Council of Justice, the KLD, seems to have embarked on a trend of only giving his support to the judges and turning the issue into a political one.
That was noted at the conference too.
Justice Minister Nasip Naco said the judiciary in the country needs a total reform in order to earn back the people’s trust. The minister also accused the KLD of only supporting individual judges, often also its members too. He considered self-promotion a big mistake that was not assisting the reforms required in the system.
Nishani, on his side, only slightly criticized the system saying only that the judiciary is not at the proper standards and, acknowledged, it needs total reforms.
Judges themselves also discussed the issues but also complained of work overload, not proper working conditions and so on.
They also discussed on the prolongation of the trials and tried to find the causes at the bad management of the sessions, requests for delays from the parties and more.
Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri sent another letter to Nishani asking him as head of the KLD to check the decisions in at least 65 cases involving trials that have turned down police arrests and accusations.
That has been the third letter the minister has sent to the KLD head, asking the audit of the court decisions, their correctness and law enforcement.
There was an immediate loud cry from the judges complaining their decisions cannot be judged.