Aleksandar Stepanovic ( (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
Serbian citizens end up waiting a long time, sometimes even for years, for decisions on appeals because courts are so overloaded with cases that every judge in a second instance civil department has to deal with 3,000 cases, Belgrade Higher Court President Aleksandar Stepanovic said on Jan. 6.
Stepanovic told the Politika newspaper that his department was currently working on 75,000 cases.
"The chronic overloaded state of that court has nothing to do with the number of judges but rather with the systemic problems stemming from the broad jurisdiction of the Higher Court," he said.
Stepanovic said that he had addressed the president of the Supreme Court of Cassation regarding that matter several times, but had not gotten a response.
He added that the number of proceedings before the anti-corruption department of the Higher Court in Belgrade was "constantly growing" and that corruption trials were scheduled within "reasonable periods of 40 days on average."
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