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Accountability and Transparency in Civil Justice

The paper analyses the notions of judicial accountability and transparency from a Croatian perspective. The prolonged transition period and the EU accession process underlined the importance of an independent but effective judicial system. The need to secure mechanisms that would enhance societal and legal accountability of judges and other judicial professionals is strongly affected by the developments in 1990’s and early 2000s when new judicial elites, still influenced by past practices but protected by an overemphasized and misunderstood notion of judicial independence, created a closed professional group, a ‘state within a state’. Massive inefficiency and weak systems of liability call for a new approach. While describing some typical issues encountered in Croatia, this contribution strives to lay down some elements for rethinking of judicial accountability and transparency in civil justice systems of Central and South-Eastern Europe.

civil justice, judicial accountability and transparency, Croatia, independence of judiciary

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