EWMI NEWS:
FEBRUARY 2008
BOSNIA: REGISTRY OFFICE IN BANJA LUKA’S BASIC COURT OPENS

On February 1st, 2008, the Basic Court in Banja Luka ceremoniously opened its newly reconstructed Registry Office. Milan Tegeltija, the Court President, presided over the ceremony and welcomed several honored guests including US Ambassador Charles English; Jane Nandy, USAID Mission Director in BiH; Branko Peric, HJPC BiH President; and Dzerald Selman, Republica Srpska Minister of Justice. Many state representatives and members of Republica Srpska’s judicial community attended as well.

Assisted by EWMI’s USAID-funded Justice Sector Development Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the construction was done in accordance with the JSDP’s Model Court Initiative Intervention Plan. The remodel consolidated registry offices previously dispersed throughout the court building into one registry office located at the ground floor, improving the organization of working space as well as the Manual Records Management System, a system developed by JSDP and implemented by the court. These improvements will allow the Registry Office to function more efficiently, which is a basic prerequisite for the introduction of the new automated records management system.