Sikuta: Supreme Court Needs Justice Ministry to Clarify Its Request

Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The Supreme Court is prepared to offer its cooperation to the Justice Ministry and its probe, but, due to constantly changing information, it would welcome it if the Justice Ministry could clarify what it is that is required from the Supreme Court, stated Supreme Court chair Jan Sikuta on Thursday. "We emphasise that all previous inspections have ruled out any manipulation with the random assigning of the court cases," added Sikuta. Sikuta rejected the claim that the Supreme Court has denied employees of the Justice Ministry access to investigate the system of random assigning of cases from the docket. "The existing practice, which we find proper, is that the court extends cooperation to verify random assigning of specific cases. Such cooperation could easily dispel any specific suspicions, but this was rejected by the ministry," said Sikuta, asking the Judicial Council to adopt a stance on the issue. mf/df