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Sessions    Events    Vacancies     21 July 2010 - The Constitutional Court of BiH held today its 100th regular session of the Grand Chamber. At today''''''''s session, the Constitutional Court of BiH resolved 216 individual appeals. Out of those, the Constitutional Court resolved 17 appeals on the merits of the case, 55 appeals were rejected on the grounds of manifest inadmissibility, while 145 appeals were rejected on other grounds of inadmissibility (expired time limit for filing, failure to exhaust legal remedies, lack of jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court of BiH, etc.). In several cases, the Constitutional Court of BiH found a violation of the right to a fair trial on grounds of unreasonable length of proceedings pending before the courts and administrative authorities. The Constitutional Court of BiH reiterated that this legal issue was constantly present in practice and that courts and administrative authorities fail to consider sufficiently the standards under Article II(3)(e) of the Constitution of BiH and Article 6 paragraph 1 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Thus, for example, on the today''''''''s session alone the Constitutional Court of BiH discussed the violation of the right to fair trial on the grounds of unreasonable length of proceedings in 6 of 9 decisions on the merits. Inter alia, the Constitutional Court of BiH in the case No. AP 112/08 dismissed as ill-founded the appeal of Mr. Gojko Srdic filed against the Judgment of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina No. 070-0-Kz-06-000644-7 of 15 November 2007 and judgment of the Cantonal Court in Bihac No. 001-0-K-07-000018 of 27 July 2007. Constitutional Court found no violation of the right to fair trial under Article II(3)(e) of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 6 paragraphs 1, 2 and 3(d) of the European Convention when the appellant had the possibility to participate equally in the proceedings regardless of the fact that the courts failed to grant or give credence to the certain evidence of defense and the reasoning of the challenged decisions is satisfactory and does not indicate any procedural or substantive and legal arbitrariness. The Constitutional Court of BiH in the case No. AP 2496/10 rejected as premature the appeal of Muhamed Ali Gasi, Aziz Ali Gasi, Amir Kasumic, Engin Proho, Muharem Causevic, Edin Hota and Sinan Ljuca in relation to Article 6 of the European Convention, and as ratione materiae incompatible with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina in relation to Article 10 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Article 14 paragraph 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The following session of the Grand Chamber is scheduled for 14 September 2010. Back to sessions

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