Bulgaria will have 10 instead of 2 European delegated prosecutors. This transpired at an extraordinary meeting of the prosecutors’ college of the Supreme Judicial Council, at which a procedure was launched for the selection of delegated prosecutors..
After 4 hours of discussions, the Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council has terminated the debate on the request of the Union of Judges in Bulgaria to start a procedure for removal of the Prosecutor General. The item was put on the agenda by the..
A draft that envisages that an independent prosecutor can investigate the prosecutor general and his/her deputies was submitted to Bulgaria’s National Assembly, this country’s Minister of Justice Desislava Ahladova said for Nova TV. We will..
“The idea that the prosecutor’s office should have the same status of independence as the court is erroneous,” Ivan Bregov from the Institute for Market Economics’ Legal Programme said for the BNR. In his words as an instrument of criminal law..
Bulgaria’s Prosecution must once again assert its independence- not in view of the interests of the Prosecutor’s Office, but for the Bulgarian citizens and society, Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev said before the beginning of the procedure..
Judges of the Sofia District Court protested in front of the building of the Supreme Judicial Council downtown Sofia to voice their discontent with the new Single Information System of the Bulgarian courts of justice . They are expected to submit..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev vetoed a provision in the bill of amendments to the Judiciary Act. The press secretariat of Bulgaria’s head of state notes that for the second time this year the MPs have amended the relevant provision to the Judiciary..
There is no obstacle for any prosecutor to investigate the Prosecutor General, the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria ruled by unanimous decision . The court decision comes after a cabinet asking which followed the report of the Venice Commission which..
The Prosecutor’s College of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council defended in a declaration the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office. The declaration comes in response to last week’s comments of President Rumen Radev and Premier Boyko Borissov in..
Bulgaria’s new Supreme Judicial Council was inaugurated at an official ceremony in Sofia. Bulgaria’s Minister of Justice Tsetska Tsacheva called on the new members of the Supreme Judicial Council to restore the confidence of the Bulgarian citizens in..
