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| | CEELI - Serbia Significant Legal Developments - January 2003 |
 | | Justice Minister Slams Judiciary - In a related story, Serbia's Minister of Justice, Vladan Batic, said that the sentences handed down in the Ibar Highway murder case proved that lustration was needed in the judiciary. |
 | | Batic said that he was not surprised by the light sentences, because the judiciary was more or less unchanged since October 5, 2000, as no lustration had been carried out. |
 | | Asked why the restructuring of the cabinet, announced last year and scheduled for next month, had been abandoned, Batic simply replied, "It will not happen." Batic and Police Minister Dusan Mihajlovic have been widely rumored to be about to lose their portfolios because of the failure to reform police and clean up Serbia's might-is-right culture. |
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