TONE RECORDING OF THE HEARING BEFORE THE COURTS OF THE FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

According to Article 98 of the Law on Civil Procedure of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015, the existing legal text has been supplemented by the new articles 375a, 375b. and 375c. which introduces the possibility of tone recording of litigation. The proposed articles regulate the manner in which the court proceeds in conducting the tone recording, and their purpose is to improve the efficiency of court proceedings and to increase the credibility of presenting evidence
in litigation proceedings. In this paper, the authors referred to: the reasons and aim of regulating the tone recording of litigation, the manner and procedure of making a decision on the tone recording of the hearing, the storage of the recorded tone, the making of the transcript of the tone and the possibility of the party’s objection, other relevant regulations regulating the sound recording (The Criminal Procedure Act, Courts Instructions, Courts rules of procedure), and in conclusion have pointed out a number of issues that make it difficult and disable the tone recording of litigation with suggestions that such a way of documenting factual allegations, statements and statements of litigants in civil proceeding will make more efficient.