Andreas Broeckmann on Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:10:32 +0100 |
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Syndicate: <nettime> HIGHER COMMERCIAL COURT DISMISSES B92 APPEAL |
ANEM and Radio B2-92 press release HIGHER COMMERCIAL COURT DISMISSES B92 APPEAL BELGRADE, August 16 -- The Higher Commercial Court in Belgrade has dismissed an appeal by former Radio B92 General Manager Sasa Mirkovic against a decision by the Commercial Court appointing Aleksandar Nikacevic general manager of the station. The court ruled on August 3 that the decision to register Aleksandar Nikacevic as general manager was done in keeping with the law and the new constitution of Radio B92 adopted by the Youth Council of Belgrade. ANEM and B2-92 protest strongly against the decision of the Higher Commercial Court to support the earlier ruling, which was blatantly illegal. The justification for the decision demonstrates the court's refusal to address the basic legal issue, which is whether the new constitution, passed illegally and secretly by the Youth Council without the knowledge of the Radio B92 staff, could serve as valid grounds to replace Sasa Mirkovic with Aleksandar Nikacevic as general manager of Radio B92. The court is legally obliged to consider this legal issue. Had it done so it would have been clear that the ruling on replacing the general manager was illegal. Thus, by failing to determine whether the constitution had been adopted by a competent body and in a legitimate procedure, the court has handed down an invalid decision. ANEM and B2-92 will continue their legitimate efforts to regain control over the company which had been built over the past decade. ANEM will lodge a motion to protect legality against the decision of the Higher Commercial Court. Proceedings are already under way to annul the Company Constitution of Radio B92, which was adopted illegally by the Youth Council, and the decision made according to it. The authentic staff of Radio B92 have expressed their deep disappointment with the workings of the judiciary in dealing with the take-over of the radio and have pledged to continue every available form of struggle to regain control of the radio rather than permit the usurping management to reap the benefits of their work. The staff are confident that the judiciary will sooner or later be forced to confirm the obvious: that Radio B92 was illegally seized from its staff who are its rightful owners and to whom it must eventually be returned. # distributed via nettime-l: no commercial use without permission of author # <nettime> is a moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # un/subscribe: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and # "un/subscribe nettime-l you@address" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org/ contact: <nettime@bbs.thing.net> ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress