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Certain cases got statute-barred during his period of inactivity. Werner said he had not access to the files concerned as court clerks were working on them. Pacal said this argument is untenable as Werner could have demanded that the files be handed to him. The disciplinary complaint against Werner was submitted by the head of the Regional Court in Brno. He said Werner had not been active appropriately in about 80 court cases. Werner's superiors also criticised him for "unusual" attendance record. Werner rejected the accusation at the court session today. He said that his conflicts with the regional and district courts' leaderships were behind the disciplinary complaint lodged against him. Werner belonged to critics of the situation at the Prostejov district court pointing to what they called the bad division and organisation of work by the court management, which in his opinion prevented cases from being handled quickly enough. This was for the third time Werner ended up before the disciplinary panel of judges. He said he did not expect the NS would decide this way today. "I expected an acquittal, after the witnesses' testimony," he told CTK, adding that he will consider lodging a constitutional complaint against the verdict.
(Ceske Noviny)
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