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About Appeals Unit

The mandate of specialized appeal prosecution unit is to lodge an appeal, which trigger rights of appeal in a favor of the represented parts according to article 210 CPC.
The specialized appeal prosecution unit litigates criminal cases upon appeal and has a vital function in ensuring the criminal convictions are properly aligned with laws. The specialized appeal prosecution unit also ensures that the grounds of the appeal of civil and criminal matters are prepared in an efficient and timely manner, as well ensuring that the grounds of appeal are answered accordingly.

The specialized appeal prosecution unit checks if, in the cases applicable, its necessary not to appeal or withdraw from the process according to the law, as well checking whether support documents are missing, time limitation of appeal are met, and all other managements issues related appeal cases.

 

The appeal unit performs their duties according to the guidelines prescribed by the Attorney General.

In addition to that, the unit is responsible to train the other related agencies and to educate and provide public awareness raising about the right to appeal as permitted by the laws.

 

The appeal unit is led by highly well experienced prosecutor together with other prominent prosecutors including female prosecutor, prosecution officers and paralegals who support the unit, they are trained to prosecute all kinds of appeal cases.