Today, on 18.02.2022, at 11:30, the Appeal Chamber held the public plenary session of case (JD) no. 3/2021, dated 30.04.2021, pertaining to the appeal of the appellant Bujar Memia against the High Prosecutorial Council decision no. 81, dated 31.03. 2021 “On imposing a disciplinary measure against prosecutor Bujar Memia”, with interested parties, the High Inspectorate of Justice (HIJ) and the High Prosecutorial Council (HPC).
With regard to the appellant’s request for considering invalid the representation act of the High Inspector of Justice, the trial panel failed to reach the required majority under Article 72/2, in conjunction with Article 73/4 of Law 8577/2000 “On the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania”, as amended, therefore, based on Article 39/2 of Law 8577/2000, it decided to reject the appellant’s request.
Subsequently, the appellant submitted a new preliminary request by which he requested further acts from the High Prosecutorial Council and the High Inspector of Justice. As regards this request, the HPC representative stated that this institution does not possess any other acts rather than the file it forwarded to the Chamber and that includes all the acts forwarded by the HIJ and the ones produced by HPC.
The HIJ representative clarified that the appellant requests information from the disciplinary proceedings report on matters whereby he was not requested to be charged with disciplinary liability.
After hearing the explanations of the representatives of the High Prosecutorial Council and the High Inspector of Justice, the trial panel decided to reject the request of the appellant Bujar Memia to request acts from these institutions. Given that the court debate on the appellant’s prior request, as well as the explanations provided by the parties to the trial, took a relatively long time, taking also into account the fact that the court debate on the merits of the appeal could not be terminated within today’s hearing, the session was adjourned to March 15, 2022, at 10:00.
The public plenary session will take place in the premises of the Appeal Chamber, at Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, no. 3, Tirana.