Establishment of the Macedonian Judicial System in the Aftermath of World War II

Abstract

The new constitutional status of Macedonia, defined at the
First Session of ASNOM, posed in front of the postwar authorities thec hallenge to work on the establishing of a new political system and
institutions which would be able to address the emerging issues of the
postwar reconstruction and state – building.

Having this in mind, this paper makes an attempt to analyze
the main events, processes and legislation related to the establishment
of the Macedonian judiciary after World War II. The paper is focused
on the transformation of the bodies in delivering justice, from the
people’s committees to the regular courts. A special emphasis is put
on the first decade after the liberation of the country. In that sense, the
paper examines the main sources of relevant law, as well as key
statistical data on the establishment of the Macedonian judicial
system. As a result of that, the paper defines the main challenges for
the development of the judiciary in Macedonia in the World War II
aftermath.
According to one of the main conclusions of the paper,
although the postwar political establishment in the country had an
increasingly authoritative approach concerning the organization of the
political system, the evaluation of the performance of the judiciary
carried out at the beginning of 1950’s provided the needed input for
the transformation and the advancement of the judicial system.