Regarding the statements published on 18^th May 2022, at Relaxportal and Livnoonline, as well as Radio Livno, the public was informed that according to the portals "Livno courts are record holders in the number of citizens' complaints", and among other things they state: "We have a Municipal Court in Livno with 50 appeals, Basic Court in Banja Luka with 27 appeals, Municipal Court in Sarajevo with 28 appeals. There are also County Courts.

The County Court in Livno seems to have followed the example of the Municipal Court in Livno, they have as many as 22 appeals, and there is also the County Court in Sarajevo with 22 appeals", says Mitrović (Ljubinko Mitrović, Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH).

In order to properly and completely inform the public, the real situation is completely different.

Namely, these are not complaints, as regular legal remedies that are submitted in accordance with legal regulations, as the Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH Ljubinko Mitrović points out. These are submissions that the Ombudsman calls complaints, by which they ask for the information when some specific case is going to be resolved in the Cantonal Court in Livno.

The Institution of the Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH - Field Office in Livno, etc. according to the records of the Cantonal Court in Livno sent 19 such submissions of "complaints" to this court, to which this court responded immediately.

The Institution of the Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH sent a letter to this court number Sl-OI-1/22, Sl-OI-2/22 dated 23^rd May 2022, in which they expressed their sincere regret that a misunderstanding had occurred, since, based solely on statistical indicators, readers could have gotten the wrong impression of the work of the Cantonal Court in Livno and the Municipal Court in Livno.

Among other things, the letter states that a large number of cases are unfounded and immediately closed (eg: appellants submit an appeal, which is registered and subsequently found to be inadmissible, ie the appellant is dissatisfied with the verdict or does not use a regular remedy (thinking that the Institution of the Ombudsman may reverse the judgments as they see fit…)). It often happens that some complainants immediately after filing a lawsuit open a case in the Institution of the Ombudsman, Field Office in Livno, requesting that the work of the court in the same cases to be monitored. The fact is that during 2021, only one recommendation was made to the Cantonal Court in Livno in a case in which a violation of the trial was found within a reasonable time.

The letter from the Institution of the Ombudsman emphasized that the number of cases in the Field Office in Livno, related to courts, could not be an indicator of the real situation in the judiciary of Canton 10.

According to the submitted list of 20 appeals received by the Field Office in Livno in 2021, it was determined that one appeal relates to the case of the Municipal Court in Livno, one appeal relates to a case not sent to the Cantonal Court in Livno to be resolve the appeal process, one complaint related to a relatively recent administrative dispute and the case is still open in the court, for 5 complaints the Field Office in Livno received information directly from the court office, while 12 complaints related to cases where the Field Office in Livno requested information in submissions on cases, and received answers to all inquiries. It should be emphasized that all cases have been resolved and that the Institution of the Ombudsman for Human Rights of BiH, Field Office in Livno, has been informed about it.

It follows from the above that the Ombudsman Mitrović hastily and without verification gave the said statement which damaged the reputation of this court, and it is necessary for him to publicly deny his statement.