RESPONSIBILITY OF THE JUDGES IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Abstract

This paper aims to explain and analyze the responsibility of the judges, both of criminal-legal, disciplinary and civil-legal responsibility, which is associated with the performance of judicial duty, which implies conscientious performance of the function of adjudicating citizens disputes, exclusively on the basis of law. According to the theory of separation of powers, which has a significant role in the constitutional order of R. North Macedonia, in addition to the legislative and executive power, the third power, that is, the judicial power, is responsible for resolving disputes at the institutional level, also between citizens. Namely, this authority is realized by the verdicts and decisions of independent and the autonomy judges. The judge, while performing his official duty (independent and autonomy), acts as a body of state, not in his own name, but in the name and in the interest of the state and the citizens.     

In the Republic of North Macedonia, for a long period of time, reforms in the judiciary have been continuously implemented, which from many are of essential nature. A few legal and institutional changes have been adopted which represent a solid basis for the successful implementation of the responsibility of judges, with the goal of establishing a fully independent judiciary, but things are quite complicated and difficult.