In the article, the President of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia highlights some of the results of the Slovenian judiciary in the year 2017. 

lobalization of the judicial system is becoming a necessary component in an increasingly globalized international community, in which legislative and executive branches of government are striving for a supranational level.

The article discusses the nature of reimbursement claims. A reimbursement claim is a claim that occurs to the one, who made a specific fulfilment for the benefit of another. A fulfilment is most often a payment in cash, but there may also be some other omission, duty or service.

Applicable legislation regulates four forms of partnerships, i.e. marriage, cohabitation and formal and non-formal civil unions. The rights of homosexual persons primarily relate to one’s personal situation affecting other areas of law as well.

Starting from the analysis of the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia Up-258/15, the author elaborates the problem of intention and errors in case of normative elements of statutory descriptions of criminal offences, especially those of a value nature.

One of the main features of legal theory after Second World War was the interest, dedicated to the role of the principles in the legal discourse. Several tools were developed that enable the use of legal principles (the most significant author is R. Dworkin).

Recently, in her 70. year a long years’ editor and curator of legal publications of the publishing company GV Založba, Ltd. Vesna Fortuna died.

The autonomy of the Parliament is the consequence of ensuring a functioning system of checks and balances, and it derives from the principle of the separation of powers. When reviewing the autonomy of the Parliament, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia derives from the constitutional principle of the separation of powers and it assesses the relationship between the autonomy of the first and the second houses of the Parliament

The rule-of-law state is a democratic state based on the division of powers and in which the functioning of the state bodies is bound by law. And although the legal regulations are passed by the representative body within which the politicians decide, it is essential they have the possibility and the desire to find lawyers who can advise them professionally. 

n recent years, Europe and the Globe have witnessed a series of unprecedented challenges of fundamentals of national, European and international legal order. States ignore decisions of competent courts, put international treaties in question, or are about to marginalise constitutional principles. Consequently, legal values are not acknowledged, past experiences ignored or misinterpreted and the peaceful future put at risk. 

he article addresses subsidiary protection, a form of international protection in the European Union, currently governed by Directive 2011/95/ES or Qualification Directive. 

In accordance with Slovenian Complementary and Alternative Medicine Act (Zakon o zdravilstvu) healers are not liable under the general rules of compensation liability. Slovenian courts allow the victims to claim compensation on the contractual basis or on the basis of a civil offense.