Single Judicial Database
From Monday, information concerning almost all
Croatian courts and judges, state attorneys and lawyers, court interpreters and
expert witnesses as well as judicial practice can be found at the address www.sudacka-mreza.hr.
This was secured by the contract between the Ministry
of Justice and the association Judge's Web which is the author of this project.
The contract was signed in the Croatian Chamber of Economy by the Minister of
Justice Vesna Skare Ozbolt and the President of Judge's Web Drazen Komarica
For the last 16 months, the project was implemented as
part of the informatization of judiciary and within the activities pertaining
to the entire judicial reform.
The purpose of the project is to assist judges in
making court decisions, ensure increased transparency of the functioning of
judicial bodies and make judiciary closer to citizens via a single database
available on the internet.
The web address contains information on the courts and
judges which should be completed by the end of June (judges' biographies,
judicial practice, court rulings and other decisions) and it already contains
over 2,000 pages listing expert witnesses and court interpreters
The Minister Skare Ozbolt did not hide her
satisfaction with the project, calling it one more incentive in the judicial
reform mosaic, this time relating to the creation of an
information-communication infrastructure and the introduction of an automated
operation system.
She pointed out that her ministry in this year secured
the largest ever budget for judicial reform, 76 million kuna, and this for
large projects like the one concerning the opening of the digital land
registry, and, from Monday, the Judge's Web project.
The Minister also announced new projects whose purpose
is a simpler registration of business entities, informatization of court
registries and establishment of the integrated information system and single
internet and intranet networks for judicial bodies. Until the end of this year,
around 50 judicial bodies should be connected by the network and around 10,000
court decisions published on the internet.
Mr. Komarica also expressed his satisfaction with the
signed contract, pointing out that this is primarily the result of a
partnership between the non-governmental sector and the Government, which is
interested in opening up to its citizens and solving social problems.
The project Judge's Web is worth around 2.9 million euro financed by
donations of the governments of Norway, Netherlands, OSCE and USA.
The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, which is the
project's largest donor, Mr. Knut Toraasen, was present at the signing of the
contract and earmarked the project as significant for the development of
Croatia and its approximation to EU
and NATO.
Iskon.hr. 30.05.2005
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