Review article
https://doi.org/10.22586/csp.v53i1.13158
The Development of Judicial Authorities and the Related Legal Framework in Croatia in 1945
Martina Grahek Ravančić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-8671
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The organisation of the new government in the immediate aftermath of the war in Croatia encompassed and largely relied on the formation and development of judicial institutions and the accompanying legal regulations. This paper analyses the circumstances and conditions in which the judicial system was established and the tasks set before the post-war judiciary. It was essential to review how the regulations were standardised and how regular (circuit and district) courts and short-lived ‘special’ courts, whose consequences were far-reaching, operated. It is important to highlight the significance of public prosecutors in Croatia. Through analysing archival sources and the available literature, an attempt was made to determine the extent that the legal vacuum that appeared after the severance of all ties with the pre-war laws made it easier to implement the new system, which sought to secure not only its own legality, but also the legitimacy of its authority.
Keywords
judiciary; courts; laws; public prosecutor; Yugoslavia; Croatia; 1945.
Hrčak ID:
255116
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Publication date:
1.4.2021.
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