{"id":9935,"date":"2025-09-01T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:32:34","slug":"on-the-reform-of-the-bilingual-judiciary-in-carinthia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/on-the-reform-of-the-bilingual-judiciary-in-carinthia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform of bilingual jurisdiction in Carinthia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">When accepting the\u00a0 new function the\u00a0 President of the Klagenfurt Regional Court\u00a0\u00a0<b>Manfred Herrnhofer\u00a0<\/b>also addressed the question of bilingual courts in Carinthia. At this occassion he openly told that he supports the introduction of bilinguality at the <em>Regional Court in Klagenfurt<\/em> and at the both <em>District Courts in Voelkermarkt and Villach<\/em>, however with possible closure of District Courts in <span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><em>Bleiburg\/Pliberk, Eisenkappel\/\u017delezna Kapla and Ferlach\/Borovlje<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Up till now the reactions have been mixed. While the President of the Council\u00a0 for Slovenian Minority at the Office of the Federal Chancellor and the Mayor of the Municipality Globasnitz\/Globasnica <b>Bernard Sadovnik\u00a0<\/b>stressed that it would\u00a0 be the time to activate what is already 70 years stated in in Austrian State Treaty, however he is opposing the closure of\u00a0 the District Courts in exchange for bilingual jurisdiction at the courts in <em>Klagenfurt, Villach\u00a0 and Voelkermarkt<\/em>, what would also bring\u00a0 a loss of numerous working places at the countryside. Similar was the reaction of the Team Kaernten&#8217;s\u00a0 delegate and the spokesman for minority questions in this party, namely <b>Franc Jo\u017eef\u00a0 Smrtnik <\/b>from Eisenkappel.<\/p>\n<p>Layer\u00a0<b>Rudi <\/b><b>Vouk\u00a0<\/b>is however against the standpoint of Sadovnik and Smrtnik regarding the possibility of closing\u00a0 the three bilingual District Courts in spite of implementation of bilinguality at the <em>District Courts<\/em> in <em>Klagenfurt, Villach and Voelkermarkt<\/em> and at the <em>Klagenfurt Regional Court<\/em>. In an open letter he is critisizing the reaction of the Slovenian political representatives and is warning them not to threathen the reform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LG2-1024x698.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LG2-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LG2-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LG2-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/LG2.png 1371w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When accepting the\u00a0 new function the\u00a0 President of the Klagenfurt Regional Court\u00a0\u00a0Manfred Herrnhofer\u00a0also addressed the question of bilingual courts in Carinthia. At this occassion he openly told that he supports the introduction of bilinguality at the Regional Court in Klagenfurt and at the both District Courts in Voelkermarkt and Villach, however with possible closure of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9000785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-9935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}