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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20190827-201013-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/pseudo-legal-justice/ Pseudo-Legal Justice - How Montenegro’s Supreme Court Denies Access to Justice Duković, Mirko eng 2019-08-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 access to justice Constitutional Law Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K., a member of the Council of the Anti-corruption Agency of Montenegro, was dismissed of his duties, by the very same body that appointed him: the Parliament of Montenegro. This could be the first sentence of a novel written by Franz Kafka if he was with us today. While Kafka’s Josef K. was arrested and left to roam free through a court building to find a courtroom in which his destiny would be determined, Josef K. in this story is in a similarly peculiar situation: He does not know which court in Montenegro he should appeal to and present his grievances. This Kafkaesque reality is the result of a questionable interpretation of the law by Montenegro’s Supreme Court – just another piece in the demise of the country’s rule of law.