The National Assembly decided that only members of the Supreme Judicial Council with an unexpired term of office will elect the Prosecutor General and the Chairpersons of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Administrative Court. The text,..
“There is only one Orthodox church. The traditional religion in Bulgaria is Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is its sole exponent and representative. That is what I said during a meeting with Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil,” GERB..
Vazrazhdane will submit amendments to the Law on Religions, the press centre of the party has announced. Supreme Court of Cassation rules that the Bulgarian Orthodox Old Calendar Church must be registered The amendments are going to..
T he Supreme Court of Cassation has given final judgement that the Bulgarian Orthodox Old Calendar Church must be registered in the register of religious denominations. This isthe first time a second Orthodox church will be registered, the..
The recent chairperson of the GERB-SDS parliamentary group, Desislava Atanasova, and the former judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation, Borislav Belazelkov, are to be sworn in as constitutional judges today. The two were elected members of the..
Twenty-two judges will be able to investigate the prosecutor general and his deputies, the court’s press centre has announced. Their names have been approved by the general assembly of the Criminal College of the Supreme Court of Cassation..
“Shame, I never imagined that in a country that is a member of the EU, we have to go back in time tens of years and start fighting a battle for independence all over again,” Galina Zaharova, chair of the Supreme Court of Cassation told reporters..
A mechanism for holding the Prosecutor General criminally liable is being established, Bulgaria's caretaker Minister of Justice Krum Zarkov announced at a briefing at the Council of Ministers. This mechanism provides for a criminal judge from the..
According to the Constitution, "sex" shall be considered as a biological concept only, Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled. 11 court members voted in favor and one person (Georgi Angelov) voted against. The Civil College of the Supreme Court..
Only one-fifth of eligible judges participate in the election of two new members of the Judicial Board of Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council . This happens less than a year before the end of the mandate of the SJC and after the resignations of the..
