Salaries of the Supreme Court judges dealing with other cases than those pertaining to criminal law won't be evened up with the Court's criminal-law judges, Justice Minister Tomas Borec said on public broadcaster RTVS's political debate 'O 5 minut 12' (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday. "There are bigger and more urgent problems that we have to tackle," asserted Borec, citing poor law enforcement and the poor running of courts in Slovakia.
Salaries of the Supreme Court judges dealing with other cases than those pertaining to criminal law won't be evened up with the Court's criminal-law judges, Justice Minister Tomas Borec said on public broadcaster RTVS's political debate 'O 5 minut 12' (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday. "There are bigger and more urgent problems that we have to tackle," asserted Borec, citing poor law enforcement and the poor running of courts in Slovakia. At the same time Borec called on disgruntled judges to first take into consideration the living conditions of the majority population in Slovakia and then reconsider their request. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has approved a resolution that the Court's judges dealing with issues not associated with the criminal law should be entitled to receive a special bonus of €1,610 in order for their salaries to equal criminal-law judges and thereby to eliminate discrimination among Supreme Court judges. Former justice minister, and now SDKU-DS caucus leader Lucia Žitňanská, also speaking on the programme, said that this indicates that the Supreme Court is more concerned with the financial background of its judges than with problems currently facing the justice sector.
Christopher George
