ABSTRACT
This chapter uses Professor Pitamic’s lecture for the inauguration of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law in 1920 as a platform from which to explore the future of criminal justice, in part in Slovenia but more importantly in the United Kingdom (particularly England and Wales). The implications for Slovenia in joining the EU in 2004, and for the UK in leaving it in 2020, have been significant. Professor Pitamic would have enjoyed dissecting these important consequences for both countries. The English criminal justice “system” continues to be pushed to save money and to take shortcuts to justice; the need for due process, to re-balance the system in favour of the underprivileged, is clear. The chapter ends, as does Professor Pitamic’s lecture, with his call for the “moral qualities” required of all citizens to maintain and develop a nation.
