Susko: Ministry Not After Specific Cases, Only Records of Their Distribution

Bratislava, April 25 (TASR) - The Justice Ministry asked the Supreme Court only for access to records on how court cases have been distributed from the docket via the information system and it hasn't asked for access to the full database or specific files, Justice Minister Boris Susko (Smer-SD) declared on Thursday. Susko fails to understand why the Justice Ministry shouldn't have the right to supervise the process and signalled that this effort will continue, seeing as he believes that there are doubts over the distribution of cases. "Cases in our judicial system are assigned to judges randomly. The random assignment improves the odds of every single cases being heard by unbiased judges and it also eliminates potential interference with the decision-making of courts that would smack of corruption, while also reinforcing the certainty for trial defendants that their fate won't be decided by biased judges. It's quite certainly in public interest to look into whether this system is truly random and hasn't been manipulated in any way," said Susko. mf