Criminal offences against the Administration of Justice are positioned in Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Slovenian Criminal Code CC-1. These criminal offences are intended to protect the Justice as a separate branch of power with its specific tasks. The common feature of those offences is that they block and threaten the correct functioning of judicial authorities. The purpose of criminal law protection of offences in this Chapter is to ensure the smooth work of Justice and its authority. Nowadays these offences do not protect just domestic Justice, but also Justice on supranational level. Although offences against the administration of justice do not appear very often and are statistically irrelevant (only about 1,5% per year), it is very important category of criminal offences. They protect the proper functioning of the judicial system and its authority, which is a prerequisite for the existence of a rule of law, based on the division of powers into the legislative, executive and judicial branches.
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