Mato Tadić (born 15 August 1952 in Vuksic,

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) is a former judge of the

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. He declared ethnic affiliation as a Bosnian Croat.

Biography

Tadić graduated from the

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and began his career with the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in

, first as a law-clerk and, after passing the bar exam in 1978, as deputy public prosecutor and then public prosecutor.Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina - CV
/ref> In 1991, Tadić was appointed as deputy public prosecutor of the

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. He remained in that position until the outbreak of war. During the war, he remained shortly on the Brčko front and then in 1993 he moved to

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. At the beginning of 1994, he left for

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and afterward to Sarajevo where he served as

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within the government of the Republic and then the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina until the end of 1998. He took part in the peace talks at

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which led to the

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. Under his lead, the criminal code and criminal procedure code of the Federation entity were reformed in 1998–99 with international support. Around 1998 Tadić was deemed close to the short-lived

New Croatian Initiative The New Croatian Initiative ( hr, Nova hrvatska inicijativa or NHI) was a Bosnian Croat political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded by Krešimir Zubak in 1998, after he left the Croatian Democratic Union. The party was dissolved in ...

party founded by

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to contrast nationalist

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. In June 1999, Tadić was appointed as a member (judge) of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in 2003, he was elected both vice-president and president of the second panel of the Human Rights Chamber. In 2002, he was appointed judge of the

. From May 2003 through to June 2006, he served as first president of the Constitutional Court. In 2015, he was appointed as vicepresident of the Constitutional Court. In 2006 Tadić was indicted for corruption; as the State Prosecutor's Office did not provide the court with any detail on the accusations, the court decided not to suspend nor dismiss him. He was finally acquitted.P. 223-224
/ref> Tadić has published various texts on criminal and

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, administration and local self-government, and topics relating to the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. He has also been a lecturer for the state's Criminal Defence Section (OKO) and for the OSCE Mission to BiH and a participant of numerous national and international conferences.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tadic, Mato 1952 births Living people Bosnia and Herzegovina judges Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Law School alumni