20 June 2017
Today marks the first 100 days since Jovo Vangelovski was appointed as the President of the Supreme Court. This period will be remembered for the decision to release from custody the prime suspect in SPO’s case of “Trust,” Sead Kochan, including several commenced but unfinished initiatives on part of Vangelovski, among which is the procedure […]
25 April 2017
Today, EU Ambassador Samuel Žbogar met with the President of the Supreme Court, Jovo Vangelovski where they discussed the situation in the Macedonian judiciary. There still aren’t any details regarding the meeting, but Žbogar made a brief announcement on his Twitter account: “With President of Supreme Court, we discussed much needs to be done to […]
11 April 2017
This afternoon, the Supreme Court released an official statement that they had rejected all requests and objections which were on the agenda for today’s general meeting. At the meeting, the request made by the Special Prosecutor’s Office(SPO) for the exclusion of the President of the Supreme Court, Jovo Vangelovski was rejected, as was the objection […]
31 March 2017
Yesterday, the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office requested that the president of the Supreme Court, Jovo Vangelovski be excluded because he is part of the wiretapped conversations that were released by SDSM which occurred when he was the president of the Court. As this concerns the president of the highest court in the country i.e. there is no […]
30 March 2017
Today, the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) has submitted a request to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Macedonia to exclude of the president with an explanation that Jovo Vangelovski is part of the “bombs” and that it happened during a period when he was also performing is duties as President of the Supreme Court. […]
13 March 2017
The Judicial Council elected Judge Jovo Vangelovski to be the president of the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court Judge Stojanče Ribarev to be the acting president of the Basic Court 1 – Skopje. For Vangelovski’s election voted 12 members of the Council one was against, and according to the Badinter rule, which is necessary […]
30 April 2015
This morning, the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on the case “Mitrinovski against Macedonia,” in which the state is guilty of a violation of Article 6 paragraph 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the right to a fair trial. Macedonia will need to pay Mitrinovski 4,000 euros of immaterial damages […]
