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Teema: RE: Questionnaire on the independence of judges and of the judiciary
Dear Mr Strus
To answer the letter circulated by the Secretariat of the Network of the
Presidents of the EUs Supreme Courts, I am glad to send you the
contribition of the Estonian Supreme Court to the survey about the
information on structural guarantees for judicial independence. If you
have additional comments or questions, let me know.
Kind regards
Mari-Liis Lipstok
Legal Adviser to the Chief Justice
Supreme Court of Estonia
tel + 372 730 9022
mob +372 529 4599
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Subject: Questionnaire on the independence of judges and of the
judiciary
Dear President,
Please find attached a questionnaire that was developed by the
Directorate-General for Justice of the European Commission in
cooperation with the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary
(ENCJ).
The objective of the questionnaire is to collect factual information on
certain structural guarantees for judicial independence, which cover
certain guarantees for the independence of judges and for the
independence of the judiciary. The first set of questions aims to
collect information on which authorities have the power to deliver the
main decisions on human and financial resources in the Judiciary. The
second set of questions aims to collect: 1) factual information on
structural guarantees regarding certain situations in which judicial
independence could be at risk, and, if available, 2) data on how often
such situations occurred in practice in a given timeframe.
Depending on the results of the questionnaire, Directorate-General for
Justice will consider how the data could be used in the context of the
EU Justice Scoreboard. In the last few weeks, nearly all ENCJ members
already provided replies to the questionnaire (around 20 Member States).
For remaining countries, we wonder whether the Supreme Courts could
provide replies due to their role in safeguarding judicial independence.
We would kindly ask you to provide replies to the questionnaire prior to
the 3rd of February 2014 to
[email protected]
<mailto:
[email protected]>
If you require any clarifications please, do not hesitate to contact
Joze Strus in the Directorate-General for Justice directly
(
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> ; tel.: 32
229-68992)
Many thanks for your cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Dominique Hascher
Réseau des Présidents des Cours suprêmes judiciaires de l'Union
européenne
Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the European
Union
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