15.05.2023.
Legal Service Day marked
A ceremony to mark the Legal Service Day and its 159th anniversary has been held at Hotel Breza in Vrnjačka Banja.
Acting Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Nebojša Nikolić congratulated the legal personnel on their anniversary and touched on the work done by the Legal Service over the past year.He particularly emphasized the complex and responsible normative activity and work on the regulations of major importance, including the new Law on Health Care and Health Insurance for Military Personnel, amendments to the Law on the Serbian Armed Forces, and the new draft Law on Military Education.
He was happy to see such a great number of young Legal Service officers in attendance, which, he said, was a definite sign that the long tradition of this service would continue in the Serbian Armed Forces.
Alongside members of the Legal Service of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces, the ceremony was attended by State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence Mile Jelić, Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Goran Momčilović, and representatives of organizational units of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces.As part of the celebration of the Legal Service Day, visits to Žiča and Ljubostinja monasteries have been organized.
The Legal Service celebrates its anniversary in commemoration of May 10, 1864 when the first Code of Military Justice was adopted in the Principality of Serbia, during the reign of Prince Mihailo Obrenović, in line with the European trends of the time. The Code established the organisation and activities of courts-martial in normal and emergency situations.
