Page 8 - Serbia Judicial Functional Review

A. EFFECTIVENESS IN BUDGET FORMULATION ..................................................................................................... 251
B. BUDGET LEVELS AND SOURCES ..................................................................................................................... 252
i. Budget Levels ................................................................................................................................... 252
ii. Court Fees ........................................................................................................................................ 256
C. BUDGET STRUCTURE .................................................................................................................................. 258
i. Current Expenditures ....................................................................................................................... 259
ii. Capital Investment ........................................................................................................................... 261
D. EFFECTIVENESS IN BUDGET EXECUTION .......................................................................................................... 265
i. Barriers to Efficient Utilization of Resources ................................................................................... 265
ii. Allocation of Responsibilities for Budget Execution ......................................................................... 265
iii. Procurement .................................................................................................................................... 266
E. ARREARS ................................................................................................................................................. 267
i. Scale of Arrears in the Judicial Sector .............................................................................................. 267
ii. Factors Explaining Growing Arrears ................................................................................................ 268
iii. Arrears by Court Type and by Creditor ............................................................................................ 268
iv. Arrears Relating to Prisoner Transfer .............................................................................................. 271
v. Debt Collection from the Courts by Creditors .................................................................................. 272
vi. Potential for Emergence of Arrears in Public Prosecution ............................................................... 273
vii. Impact of Arrears on Service Delivery .............................................................................................. 274
F. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT STAFFING............................................................................................................. 274
G. FINANCIAL CONTROLS ................................................................................................................................ 275
H. FINANCIAL REPORTING ............................................................................................................................... 276

3. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................... 277
CHAPTER SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................ 277
A. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 278
B. STAFFING LEVELS AND METHODOLOGY .......................................................................................................... 280
i. Numbers of Judges and Prosecutors ................................................................................................ 280
ii. Numbers of Court Staff .................................................................................................................... 283
iii. Extent and Impact of Temporary Staffing ....................................................................................... 289
iv. Use of Lay Judges ............................................................................................................................. 292
C. RECRUITMENT, EVALUATION AND PROMOTION OF JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS ..................................................... 293
i. Recruitment and Nomination of Judges and Prosecutors ................................................................ 293
ii. Criteria for the Evaluation and Promotion of Judges and Prosecutors ............................................ 294
D. TRAINING ................................................................................................................................................ 297
i. Capacity of the Judicial Academy to Meet Training Needs .............................................................. 297
ii. Training Needs Assessment ............................................................................................................. 298
iii. Initial Training .................................................................................................................................. 299
iv. Continuing Training ......................................................................................................................... 300
v. Training for Assistants and Court Staff ............................................................................................ 301
E. SALARY AND BENEFIT STRUCTURE FOR JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, AND STAFF .......................................................... 302
F. SUPPORT STAFF PLANNING AND UTILIZATION ................................................................................................. 304
i. Human Resource Systems for Court Staff ........................................................................................ 304
ii. Flexibility to Deploy Human Resources to Enhance Service Delivery ............................................... 306
iii. Division of Labor between Judges and Support Staff ....................................................................... 306
iv. Deployment and Use of Court Managers ........................................................................................ 307
G. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE ........................................................................................................................ 307
H. GENDER EQUITY IN EMPLOYMENT IN THE SERBIAN JUDICIARY ............................................................................ 309
4. ICT MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................. 311
CHAPTER SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................ 311
A. GOVERNANCE OF ICT PLANNING AND INVESTMENTS ........................................................................................ 312
i. Planning Structures .......................................................................................................................... 313
ii. ICT Funding ...................................................................................................................................... 315
iii. Outsourcing Arrangements ............................................................................................................. 317
iv. Security and Disaster Recovery ........................................................................................................ 318
B. EFFECTIVENESS OF CASE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ....................................................................... 318