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Special Court wins reprieve . . . for now.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
Byline: Tom Nicholson Spectator staff
Justice Minister fails to win cabinet approval to send bill scrapping court to parliament JUSTICE Minister Stefan Harabins plans to have parliament pass alaw scrapping the Special Court for the most serious political and organized crime cases have been put on hold by the government.
At acabinet meeting on September 28, Harabin submitted areport recommending that the Special Court in Pezinok be shut down, despite only having been in operation for a year.
The government took the report under advisement, but rejected a proposal that Harabin be given the go-ahead to submit a bill to parliament to abolish the Special Court and "change the status and function of the Special Prosecutors Office".
Harabin was nominated to his position by the ruling Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) party, and has steadily opposed the Court because he feels its justices are over paid and underworked.
Among other reasons that the court should be scrapped, according to the ministry analysis, is the fact that Special Court justices must obtain a security clearance from the National Security Bureau, which means that the secret service learns details of the justices private lives.
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