REFORMS IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF N. MACEDONIA
The development of the judicial system in the Republic of N.Macedonia is in three phases. The first phase begins with the independence of the state and lasts until the constitutional changes in 2001. The second phase starts mostly through the obtaining of the status for candidate for EU membership in 2005 when the laws on judiciary, prosecution, attorney, notary, enforcement agents and criminal procedural legislation were passed. We are in the third phase of reforms that we can freely say that they are consequence of the political conditions that began in 2015 and for which the international screening found that the judicial system did not correspond properly with the newly created conditions in the country and failed to resist influences on it. This paper aims to locate these situations and offer a solution for exiting and overcoming the qualification of a "captured judiciary" in the Republic of N.Macedonia.