The web platform “Justice Observers” of the Center for Legal Research and Analysis has started publishing the second cycle of analyses of judgments from domestic judicial practice and from the practice of the European Court of Human Rights.
The purpose of the web platform is to strengthen the consistency of judicial practice, improve legal certainty and promote transparency by bringing the work of the judiciary closer to citizens.
In this way, a significant contribution is made to the provision of more inclusive, higher quality and more visible justice, which also implies more effective protection of human rights and the existence of more effective judicial institutions.
As a forum for the development of judicial practice, the “Justice Observers” web platform has an exclusive and unique significance for the expert and the general public in terms of the observation and study of judgments, the application of European standards and the conformity of national and international judicial practice.
In the focus of “Justice Observers” are decisions of the Supreme Court of RSM, the Higher Administrative Court, the Administrative Court, the Courts of Appeal, the Constitutional Court of RSM and the European Court of Human Rights.
For this purpose, legal experts on the web platform analyze and comment on the decisions made by national courts and the Court of Strasbourg that are significant for the legal order, also proposing guidelines to strengthen legal argumentation and the persuasiveness of legal reasoning as important components in the proceedings of domestic courts.
Justice Observers’ team of legal experts is made up of well-known names in the legal profession and includes university professors, lawyers, judges, research fellows and legal consultants.
The analyses published on “Justice Observers” are expert, educational, informative and written in a clear language style. Special emphasis in the analyses is placed on the application of the Convention law and the practice of the ECHR. The analyses refer to domestic and international scientific and literary sources, as well as domestic and international judicial practice.
Of particular importance in the analyses is that the significance of a specific court decision is emphasized, that is, a conclusion is made about its impact in the context of justice and citizens’ rights.
Hence, it is of particular importance that “Justice Observers” in its analyses, among other things, highlight the verdicts that bring “social changes” and in that direction elaborate the implications that such court decisions have for the rule of law and the protection of human rights.
In this sense, the prepared analyses of the judgments published on the web platform are useful both from the point of view of education and practice, as well as from the point of view of the wider reading public. This achieves one of the key goals of the web platform – bringing the judicial practice closer to the citizens on whose behalf judgments are made.
The web platform “Justice Observers” in the Republic of North Macedonia is unique in its purpose and mission, and the idea for its creation originates from the trend that exists in Europe.
This trend enables increased transparency of the judiciary and the judgments passed by the national courts and the European Court of Human Rights, so that the entire legal profession, the civil and media public and the academic community can continuously follow the judicial practice through an expert prism.
This approach not only enables an expert review of judicial practice, but also immediately strengthens the general principles of the rule of law and the application of the standards of the European Court of Human Rights in that context.
The second cycle of the “Justice Observers” web platform is part of the program “Improving the quality and responsibility in the Macedonian judicial sector”, which is implemented by the Center for Legal Research and Analysis with financial assistance from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The implementation of the project is in the direction of the commitment of the Center for Legal Research and Analysis to empower citizens, both individually and collectively, to better understand the functioning of the legal system and its efficiency, as well as the impact it has on their lives within of the rule of law.