Daniela Dimovska sworn in as president of the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje
She pledged continuity of recent reforms: reduced backlog, full anonymization of decisions and a new court website.
Daniela Dimovska has formally taken office as president of the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje after delivering a ceremonial statement before the Judicial Council, announcing continuity of her recent management priorities: keeping the court up to date, cutting the backlog of cases, fully anonymizing court decisions and improving transparency through a new website.
Performance figures and next steps
Dimovska, who served as acting president of the court for the past 14 months, said the results achieved during that period provide the basis for the next stage of work and reforms at the institution.
She highlighted concrete gains recorded under her interim leadership: a reduction in case inflow by 4,000 matters, a 53 percent decrease in older pending cases and no expired (time-barred) cases registered so far this year.
“Given that I have already carried out this function for 14 months, today, only by taking the oath, I can promise that we will continue with the same pace and dynamics. In the past 14 months we managed to reduce the inflow of cases by 4,000. We are one of the most up-to-date courts in the country. We managed to reduce the number of old cases by 53 percent. We managed not to have a single expired case during this year. The processes for anonymization of court decisions are also nearing completion. The procedure is under way to obtain approval from the Judicial Council for a new website of the court,” Dimovska said.
She added that work will continue on finalizing technical and procedural steps needed to complete anonymization and to launch the court’s new online presence, tasks she presented as central to increasing public access to court information while protecting the identity of parties where required.
The court’s incoming president framed the progress achieved during her interim mandate as a platform for sustaining momentum rather than as an endpoint, signalling further administrative and digital measures to maintain timeliness and transparency.
Photo: press material from the event
