The Special Appeal Chamber held on 20.01.2026, at 10:00, the public hearing of case (JR) no. 51/2023, dated 06.11.2023, pertaining to the appeal of the Public Commissioner against decision no. 701, dated 25.09.2023 of the Independent Qualification Commission, related to the assessee Jurida Bajraktari.
The presiding judge announced that Article 179/b, paragraph 8 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania has set forth the transfer of powers from the Public Commissioner to the Head of the Special Prosecution Office. Pursuant to Article 199, paragraph 2 of the Civil Procedure Code, the trial panel decided on the transfer of the proceedings from the Public Commissioner to the Head of the Special Prosecution Office, Mr. Klodjan Braho, present at the hearing.
During the submission of the appeal grounds related to the proficiency assessment, the representative of the Head of the Special Prosecution Office stated that he shares a different position with the Independent Qualification Commission which, after ascertaining professional deficiencies on the part of the assessee, had decided to suspend her from office and the obligation to attend the 1-year training at the School of Magistrates. Mr. Klodjan Braho, stated that it turns out from the analysis of the acts of the case file, that the assessee has failed to reach even the minimum level of qualification for this criterion and that an incorrect declaration of assets by her has also been evidenced. The Head of the Special Prosecution Office assessed that the issues amounts to such relevance that they could not be corrected by the training program at the School of Magistrates, that Ms. Jurida Bajraktari should be considered inappropriate to continue in office, pursuant to Article 61/5 of Law no. 84/2016 and the measure of dismissal from office should be applied in her case.
The legal representative of the assessee objected to the appeal grounds, maintaining, first, that the problems in the asset assessment criterion are not such as to meet the standards of incorrect declaration and that they cannot be considered violations with a penalizing effect, whereas in the objection of the appeal ground, according to which the procedure of hiring Ms. Jurida Bajraktari in the position of legal assistant is considered a violation of her professional ethics, the legal representative focused on the proficiency assessment criterion, stating that the assessee has corrected the deficiencies through the 1-year training and that despite the issues, she has managed to maintain professional integrity in the exercise of her office. The assessee requested the rejection of the appeal and the upholding of decision no. 701, dated 25.09.2023 of the Independent Qualification Commission.
Once the parties declared that they had no procedural requests, the presiding judge invited them to submit their final conclusions. In order to provide them a reasonable time to their preparation, the trial panel decided to postpone the hearing to 27.01.2026, at 09:00.
The public hearing shall take place at the premises of the Special Appeal Chamber, at Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, no. 3, Tirana.