A member of the Judicial Council before the Judicial Council initiated a procedure to determine the responsibility of judges from the Supreme Court, in a case where the lawyer was his sister, it was said today at the session of the Anti-Corruption Commission.

For him, Anticorruption will initiate an initiative to the Judicial Council and the Association of Judges to initiate disciplinary proceedings, and will also receive a misdemeanor order.

The member of the Judicial Council has submitted a request for action in a case in which there is a close person, said the member of Anticorruption, Cveta Ristovska, adding that the legal obligations of all officials, including judges and members of the Judicial Council, bind them in the performance of their duties. , public authority or official duty to act conscientiously, expertly and responsibly, to respect ethical norms, as well as that he is obliged to pay attention to a possible conflict of interests and is obliged to report the existence of a private interest and exempt himself before discussion and decision-making .

- Given that a close person, the sister of a member of the Judicial Council was a proxy from among the lawyers of the party that lost the proceedings before the Supreme Court, not only that the member of the Judicial Council was not allowed to act, but even more so not to appear in the role of an initiator for starting a procedure to determine the responsibility of judges in the Supreme Court who acted in that case, where a person close to him participated, who had or may have a private interest, stressed Ristovska.

The SCCC also states that, viewed more broadly, the potential consequences of ignoring the conflict of interest of the members of the Judicial Council, who actually supervise and control the work of every judge in the country, create the possibility of influencing and exerting pressure on the judges who act in the proceedings. where the members of the Judicial Council have close relatives, which directly affects the autonomy and independence of the judiciary, which autonomy and independence the Judicial Council should guarantee.

The Judicial Council and the Association of Judges are obliged, after the submitted initiative to initiate disciplinary proceedings against a member of the Judicial Council, to make a decision within 60 days at the latest from the day of submission of the initiative, as well as the obligation to notify the SCCC within 60 days of its handling