The Grand Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina held today its 72nd ordinary session.
The Constitutional Court rejected a number of appeals lodged in an untimely fashion, after the expiration of the time-limit for submitting appeals, or prematurely in cases in which it was established that the appellants failed to use all available legal remedies in the previous proceedings.
Deciding on the appeals with regards to the adoption of a decision on admissibility and merits within a reasonable time-limit, the Court dismissed a certain number of appeals as ill-founded in cases in which it found no such a violation and adopted a number of decisions establishing a violation of the appellants’ rights to a fair trial.
The Court adopted a number of decisions rejecting the appeals as inadmissible which were manifestly (prima facie) ill-founded as the facts the appellants presented to the Court could not in any manner justify the claim of the appellants on the existence of violation of their rights protected by the Constitution or that the parties to the proceedings do not bear consequences of the violation of the alleged rights as protected by the Constitution.
In all cases in which the Court established that there was a violation of the appellants’ right to a fair trial, the competent courts or administrative authorities were ordered to finalize the proceedings and to inform the Constitutional Court, in accordance with Article 72(5) of the Rules of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, within a time-limit of three months from the date of delivery of the relevant decisions, on the measures taken to enforce the decisions.
All decisions taken at the session are to be delivered to the appellants within one month time-limit and posted on the official website of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
