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COURTS IN BIH RESOLVED OVER 160,000 OF OLDEST CASES DURING 2022



SARAJEVO, JANUARY 30 (ONASA) – Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina resolved more than 160,000 oldest cases in 2022, according to annual data on the results of the plans to resolve the oldest cases.
In 2022, the plan envisages solving 181,994 oldest cases, of which 91% have been solved, which is the highest realized percentage of the implementation of the plan for solving the oldest cases since 2011, when the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH (HJPC BiH) introduced implementation of plans for solving the oldest cases in the courts.
In the period from January 1 to December 31, 2022, courts in BiH resolved a total of 166,025 oldest cases, which is 3,000 more cases than in 2021.
A total of 122,603 cases were resolved in the courts of the Federation of BiH, 39,008 cases in the Republika Srpska, while the courts of the Brčko District of BiH resolved 2,845 cases, and the Court of BiH resolved 1,569 of the oldest cases.
The analysis shows that first-instance courts – municipal, basic and district courts, on average, implemented 90%, and the courts of higher instances 98% of the cases provided for in the plans.
From 2010 until the end of 2022, the courts resolved 1,583,310 oldest cases, which greatly influenced the reduction of the total number of pending cases and the resolution of the oldest cases in the courts, which is the result of the long-term practice of implementing plans for resolving the oldest cases in to the courts.
The attached document shows a summary of the implementation of the plans at the court level, by age structure of the cases in the plan, for the period 01.01. – 31.12.2022, based on the data that were the subject of the analysis. The displayed data shows the total number of cases in the plan, the number of solved cases from the plan, the percentage of implementation of the plan, the number of judges who worked on cases from the plan, and the percentage of solved cases in relation to the total number of cases in the plan in the observed age category.