THE RIGHT TO TRIAL WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME AND A DISCIPLINARY LIABILITY OF A HOLDER OF JUDICIAL FUNCTION CONCERNING THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO TRIAL WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME

Abstract

THE topic of this work is a professional-critical analysis of fifteen-year reforms of criminal procedural legislation of Republic of Serbia in terms of normative solutions contributing to the practical realization of the right to trial within a reasonable time. In the paper it is conducted a detailed analysis, as well as a critical review on the latest legal solutions regarding to which a legislator strives to a final realization of the primary goal of the reform, namely, an efficient criminal proceedings. The third part of the paper is wholly dedicated to the issues referring to a disciplinary liability of a holder of judicial function in the cases when there has been established the violation of the right to trial within a reasonable time. The last part of the paper represents a summary of the whole paper materials as well as the author`s final conclusions referring to the topic itself. Besides the previously mentioned facts, the whole paper contains a numerous number of suggestions de lege ferenda with the goal of such a normative regulation of a proceedings in order it would be in a function of a better realization of the trial within a reasonable time together with the protection of legal rights and freedoms of the subjects of a criminal proceedings.