According to the current law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), members can work with the council and still keep their other jobs within the judicial system. This has come to light with the opening of four senior management positions.
After a trial that lasted nearly five years, the case involving the Bosnian Army attack on the village of Trusina ended. Five former members of the Bosnian Army will receive their verdicts on Tuesday, September 01.
Landmark verdicts from the Bosnian state court ordering wartime rapists to compensate their victims have run into trouble because the convicted men might be too poor to pay.
Many attorneys representing war crime defendants ex-officio have been waiting for remuneration for their legal services from cantonal and district courts for years. Some have financed the defense of their clients with their own expenses.
Hundreds of Srebrenica victims families are still waiting for their loved ones remains to bury - but as time passes, it becomes more likely that only a few bones, if anything, will ever be found.
International and Bosnian courts have so far sentenced a total of 37 people to around 630 years in prison for genocide and other crimes against Bosniaks from Srebrenica 20 years ago.
Certain prosecutors and judges who work for the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) can earn a lot more than their colleagues, through lump sum payments and per diems.