2.4 JUSTICE CASES CONSIDERED FIELD OF WORK INDEX 15/14 NO. OF RESOLVED NO. OF FOUNDED PERCENTAGE OF FOUNDED AMONG RESOLVED 2014 2015 725 596 82.2 527 41 7.8 38 31 81.6 26 3 11.5 4.2 Criminal proceedings 103 95 92.2 83 6 7.2 4.3 Civil proceedings and relations 335 283 84.5 261 19 7.3 4.4 Proceedings before labour and social courts 31 28 90.3 23 3 13 4.5 Minor offence proceedings 92 61 66.3 54 3 5.6 2 4 200 4 0 0 4.7 Attorneys and notaries 39 23 59 21 2 9.5 4.8 Other 85 71 83.5 55 5 9.1 4. Judicial proceedings 4.1 Pre-litigation procedures 4.6 Administrative judicial proceedings 2.3 RESTRICTION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY RESOLVED AND FOUNDED In 2015, 401 cases concerning judicial proceedings were discussed (563 cases in 2014). Some 95 complaints related to criminal proceedings (103 in 2014), 283 to civil proceedings and relations (335 in 2014), 28 to proceedings before labour and social courts (31 in 2014), 61 to minor offences (92 in 2014) and four related to administrative judicial proceedings (two in 2014). Some 31 cases (38 in 2014) were discussed in the sub-section of pre-litigation procedures, 23 cases in the sub-section of attorneys and notaries (39 in 2014) and 71 other cases related to this field of work. In all sub-sections, a slight decline in the number of cases considered (and also received) was recorded (with the exception of administrative judicial proceedings); however, the share of justified complaints is higher than in 2014. Unfortunately, the statistics that are available do not allow for a more detailed substantive breakdown of cases in this field, particularly regarding the general trend of complaints about lengthy judicial proceedings and the share of these complaints that are justified, and also a credible comparison with preceding years. Nevertheless, it may be ascertained that a quarter of received complaints in 2014 and in 2015 concerned lengthy judicial proceedings, while the remaining three quarters referred to the content of court decisions or procedural actions taken by courts, i.e. issues regarding the quality of trials. We hereby add that it is not possible to make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the judiciary merely on the basis of complaints discussed by the Ombudsman, since our assessments depend only on the content of the complaints we considered. The fact that the number of complaints (included those that were founded) involving a violation of the constitutional right to trial without undue delay was substantially lower also in 2015 is encouraging on the one hand, since it indicates progress by the judiciary in this field; however, this 60 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA FOR 2015 61 2.4 JUSTICE 2.4.1 General findings