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The
incoherent
case
-
law
was
compounded
by
the
displacement
of
cases
from
their
natural
jurisdictions
,
as
the
Council
of
Ministers
of
BiH
itself
admitted
in
referring
to
the
“
[
i]nconsistent
practice
of
the
review
,
takeover
and
transfer
of
war
crimes
cases
between
the
Court
and
the
Prosecutor
’s
Office
and
other
courts
and
prosecutor
’s
offices
,
and
the
lack
of
agreed
upon
criteria
for
the
assessment
of
sensitivity
and
complexity
of
cases”[66
]
.
In
fact
,
after
the
adoption
of
the
Orientation
Criteria
of
the
Prosecutor
’s
Office
in
2004
,
so
-
called
“
very
sensitive
”
crimes
were
to
be
kept
by
the
Special
Department
for
War
Crimes
of
the
Prosecutor
’s
Office
of
BiH
,
and
“
sensitive
”
crimes
were
to
be
sent
to
the
cantonal
and
district
prosecutor
’s
offices
in
the
locations
in
which
the
events
occurred
as
stated
in
the
case
files
.
These
guidelines
were
very
unclear
and
,
worse
still
,
were
not
applied
consistently
.
In
simple
terms
,
this
“
case
-
by
-
case
prosecution
”
method
did
not
work
well
,
since
it
“
only
deepened
the
ongoing
mess
about
what
,
who
and
how
things
should
be
done”[67
]
.
The
lack
of
a
prosecutorial
strategy
for
the
prioritisation
and
selection
of
cases
,
and
the
absence
of
substantive
reasoning
for
the
prosecutor
’s
choice
of
the
trial
court
and
of
effective
judicial
review
of
that
choice
,
led
to
significant
uncertainty
regarding
the
prosecutor
’s
priorities
and
choices
,
some
politicians
even
questioning
the
department
’s
objectivity
in
its
case
-
selection
process
,
in
view
of
the
fact
that
90
%
of
cases
before
the
war
-
crimes
chamber
involved
Serb
defendants[68
]
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