Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2008.
Review article
Organization and responsabilities of districtual/communal courts of the City/District of Zagreb
Mirjana Gulić
; State Archives in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Number of the regular courts of first instance, being responsable for the territory of the City of Zagreb, changed five times in the period 1945-1970. Only one court existed in the period 1945/1946, three of them were active till 1953, and after that unitary court was established again, working from 1953 to 1955. Two courts were functioning in the period 1956-1959, and three of them from 1959 to 1970. Then they were abolished, and only one court was established again. Only one court of first instance was existing for the territory of the District of Zagreb (Kotar Zagreb) in the period 1945-1955, and after that three of them were working till 1970. Concerning titles two determinants are important: from 1945 to 1963 they were functioning as districtual, and after that, as communal courts, with six changes of attributions. Territorial jurisdiction covered smaller units, known as city regions, till 1952, and after that it was covering communes. Districtual Court for the District of Zagreb (Kotarski sud za kotar Zagreb) was covering, for the whole period of its existence, administratively-territorial unit of People's Liberating Bord of Zagreb (NOK Zagreb: Narodnooslobodilački odbor Zagreb). Higher degree court for districtual, respectively communal courts on the territory of the City of Zagreb was County People's Court for the City of Zagreb (Okružni narodni sud za grad Zagreb), and for the Districtual Court for the District of Zagreb (Kotarski sud za kotar Zagreb) it was County Court for the County of Zagreb (Okružni sud za okrug Zagreb) till 1949. Higher degree court for all districtual courts from the territory of the City and District of Zagreb was, from 1949, newly established County Court in Zagreb (Okružni sud u Zagrebu). Law on Organization of People's Courts from August 1945 made the courts, established in the meantime, legal, and, at the same time, prescribed their jurisdiction and organization. In the period described in the paper the Law was amended nine times, particularly in 1948 and 1954. Concerning criminal law the first part of Penal Code was pronounced in 1947, and unitary Code was pronounced in 1951, with amendments in 1959, 1962, 1965, and 1967. The Law on Criminal Procedure was brought in 1948, with amendments in 1959, 1960. and 1967. After the Civil Procedure Act from 1955, parts of civil law were covered with respective acts in 1957 and 1961, but Civil Code has not been brought to light yet. Court's Rules of Procedure were pronounced in 1960.
Keywords
1945-1970; districtual courts; communal courts; City of Zagreb; District of Zagreb; organization; jurisdiction; law, act; procedure
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29494
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Publication date:
8.12.2008.
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