DJELATNOST ZAVNOBIH-A U OBLASTI PRAVOSUĐA
ACTIVITY OF ZAVNOBIH IN JUDICIARY AREA

Summary/Abstract: In this survey the author gives a review of the development of the people's law courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Second and the Third Sessions of ZAVNOBiH, that is, from the beginning of July 1944 until the end of 1945. This is the period in which law-court duties — which were until that period performed by the peoples’ liberation boards on the liberated territory — are being separated from the executive organs of peoples administration, i. e., the period of founding peoples’ law-courts as independent organs of legal administration. Immediately after the Second Session of ZAVNOBiH the Department (later: Secretariat) for Legislation within in the Presidency of ZAVNOBiH was set up. This Department prepared the »Instructions for organization and work of the peoples' law-courts« which were opproved by the Presidency of ZAVNOBiH on October 17, 1944. The significance of the »Instructions« consists in the following: a( law-courts are separated from the peoples’ liberation boards: law-courts are being organized as special organs within the framework of unified peoples’ authorities; b) real foundations are being laid on which peoples’ law-courts have to ground their decisions; c) kinds of law-courts are being decided upon; and d) the principles of electibility of law-courts and the responsibility of judges before people are formulated.

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