Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic has three new members

The Constitution of the Slovak Republic gives the President, the Parliament and the Government of the Slovak Republic the power to appoint or elect to the Judicial Council three representatives each, who are not judges. The President of the Slovak Republic, Peter Pellegrini, has exercised this competence today. As a result, three new members, who are long-standing legal experts and are from the Bar Association, have joined the Judicial Council. These new members are Zuzana Čížová, Martin Puchalla and Adrián Kucek. "I believe that the Judicial Council will work constructively with the help of the new members, that it will address the real problems of the judiciary and that its activities will contribute to the fact that the public will gradually restore confidence in the ability of judges to act and decide impartially and fairly," said the President of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic, Marcela Kosová. The aim is to qualitatively increase the independence of the judiciary and to repair the shattered trust of the people in the Slovak judiciary. "In last years, the public did not receive correct information about the judiciary. Now it is the right time to change this. It is not the role of the Judicial Council to boost its own ego, but the credit of the judiciary", thinks Marcela Kosová, the President of the Judicial Council.