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Where did we leave it?!… To the regulation

2026-09-18 11:00:28Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
Where did we leave it?!… To the regulation
Erion Bani, Ylli Manjani

The appointed head of the Special Court of First Instance issued a new warning yesterday: if lawyers continue to fail to appear at court hearings due to his regulations, they will be fined.

So, according to His logic, the fine is the remedy that makes a regulation more reasonable, fairer, and more legal. A regulation that, ironically, does not exist anywhere else in the Albanian judicial system. Not even the Court of Appeal, which shares the same building and parallel corridor, applies these rules.

One building but not the same rules.

The commanding officer has also invented a new definition for the mobile phone. For him, the mobile phone is simply a camera and a possible camera. Period. It is not a work tool. It is not a communication tool. It is not a digital archive. It is not an instrument for accessing documents, jurisprudence, the court calendar, email or professional communication in real time.

In a word, live as if we were still in the last century.

The problem is that reality lives in 2026. The Constitutional Court has long spoken about this reality, treating the smartphone as part of the individual's private and professional life, as a digital archive that contains communications, documents, and information in real time.

But the Constitutional Court is cited three times a day when it comes to judges' salaries. When it needs to be cited to do its job, it is suddenly forgotten.

Even on the plane, they don't take your cell phone away, oh my! You put it in "flight mode" and continue to use it.

In the First Instance Criminal Court, no. In the only judicial corridor in Albania, the cell phone is treated as a dangerous weapon.

Now, either that corridor is the smartest on the planet, or all the other courts haven't yet realized what "revolutionary security" they are missing.

The commanding officer fails to distinguish between the security of the courtroom and the normal conditions for the professional exercise of duty. No one seeks to photograph or film the session in violation of the law. But the absolute ban on work equipment is not a security measure. It is confusion.

According to this logic, the lawyer, prosecutor, judge, journalist, and public should be treated almost like the defendant.

Equality before the law. No joke!

Instead of removing the armored cages that have been criticized for years as a symbol of a process that violates dignity and due process, new cages are being built. This time, imaginary ones.

You can enter the courtroom with paper and pen. Laptops are allowed, they say, but I wonder how they will function as a work tool without the internet, when almost every professional document today is accessed electronically.

This is the "digital" concept of regulation.

And now, on top of this absurdity, another layer is added: fines.

Hahahahaha.

What if judges and prosecutors who disagree with these rules also decide. Or do they just ignore them and the problem remains with the lawyers?

No, sir. No.

This is not solved with fines.

A fine does not make a rule more reasonable. It does not make it legal. It does not make it proportional. It does not make it modern.

Only reason, normal communication, and reflection can solve this.

Open the courtrooms. Let the lawyers do their job. Respect the profession, not just the institution.

And remove the Guard soldiers from the courthouse.

Because even military courts are no longer guarded by soldiers.


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