The Center for Transparency and Free Information (CTFI) welcomes the government's decision to significantly reduce court fees for citizens of all categories through the amendment of the joint instruction of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance of March 2010

The Center for Transparency and Free Information (CTFI) finds that the changes that were made on court fees through joint instruction no. 991 of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance of March 2010 generally lower the level of access of citizens to the court and to especially the access of the poor.
The changes that have been made may have been influenced by businesses

May 2012. KLD has recently made it possible for citizens to track their complaints against the judiciary through the online complaints portal located on the website of KLD

KLD has recently made it possible for citizens to track their complaints against the judiciary through the online complaints portal located on the website of KLD.

The Center for Transparency and Free Information (QTIL)*1 in cooperation with the British Embassy, following a project on reforms in the justice system, especially those in KLD, has conducted a survey with judges of the first instance of the judiciary.

The lack of witnesses or parties in the process are the main cause of the postponement of the court hearings that lead to the endless extension of the trials in almost all the courts of the first instance of the country. A research conducted by the Center for Transparency and Free Information, supported by the British embassy in Tirana, has made it possible during the year 2013-2014 to monitor many judicial processes that have been postponed over a period of several months.

The director of the Civil Society Support Agency (AMSHC), Rudi Bobrati, participated on Wednesday, December 12, in the distribution of certificates after a training on anti-corruption monitoring for print and electronic media journalists. About 15 journalists from different media attended for two consecutive days the training on the topic, "Techniques for monitoring anti-corruption actions and objectives in public administration", developed by the Center for Transparency and Free Information (CTFI) and financed by AMSHC.