Sudcovia "Za otvorenú justíciu"

Disciplinary procedure against JUDr. Ing. Miroslav Gavalec

President of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic

Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic
as the disciplinary court
Zupne nam. 13
Bratislava

06.08.2010

To file: 1Ds 1/2010
Re: Disciplinary procedure against JUDr. Ing. Miroslav Gavalec

Declaration of the initiative For Open Judiciary on the disciplinary procedure against Miroslav Gavalec

In January 2010 upon the motion of JUDr. Stefan Harabin, President of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, a disciplinary procedure started against JUDr. Ing. Miroslav Gavalec, Judge and Chairman of the Administrative Senate of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, for alleged not fulfilment of his obligations of a judge to be trained, with the proposed penalty of removal to a lower level court.

Vision of Judiciary Reform

Basic goal:
The judicial power serves to citizens and it is performed by judges together with expert and assistance staff of the Courts. EQUAL CHANCES – the constitutional right defined in Article 12 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic must be guaranteed to all these sections.

Disciplinary procedure against Judge Kristina Glezgova - 14th questionmark

Mikulas Geczi, Chairman of the District Court in Lucenec, filed on 8 September 2008 against the Judge a disciplinary motion based on the fact that in a civil law dispute between the legal entity – the petitioner and the general hospital and policlinic Vseobecna nemocnica s poliklinikou, n.o. Lucenec – the defendant, upon the complaint of the hospital over Judge’s prejudice in procedure of 17 December 2006, the Judge stated that she does not feel to be prejudiced and she proposed not to be excluded from the decision making.