Prelevic Law Firm

We have represented victims in some of the landmark human rights cases in Montenegro :

Danilovgrad Roma torture case
filed with the Montenegrin courts in 1995, the case was settled in 2003 with the Montenegrin Government for 1 milllion Euro following the decision of the Committee Against Torture in favor of the Roma plaintiffs
( Hajrizi Dzemajl et al. v. Yugoslavia ).

Trafficking in Human Beings
representation of the victim, Moldovan woman S.C. in the most famous sex-trafficking case in Montenegro involving the highest officials of the State Prosecutor's office and the Government. After years of abduction in Montenegro the victim was provided a safe refuge with her children in a third country , which we consider the biggest success of our representation in political circumstances prevailing at the time in Montenegro . Some thirty state prosecutors were dismissed from their posts as a result of this case, as well.
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR700012005

Deportation of Muslim refugees in 1992
This law firm has so far filed 34 claims for redress against the Ministry of police and the Republic of Montenegro on behalf of the families of 34 Bosnian men who saught refuge in Montenegro in 1992 only to be apprehended and returned to the army of Radovan Karadzic in Republika Srpska where the vast majority of them were killed. Only six survived horrors of the Foca concentration camp.
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"Radoje Dakic" Factory Workers' Violation of the Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Case
705 workers have filed suit against the Ministry of Interior for damages arising out of the illegal ban on their protest gathering, i.e. violation of their constitutionally safeguarded right to a peaceful assembly. The first instance judgement established the violation of the workers' human and constitutional rights, including fear and humiliation they had suffered. However, the court failed to award any damages. The case is now pending before the appellate court.

- Radomir Prelevic is a member of a team of lawyers defending journalists whose freedom of expression has been violated.

- Dragan Prelevic has authored the Human Rights Manual for the Police in Montenegro.

- Tea Gorjanc-Prelevic has authored and edited several publications as the former director of the Judicial Training Centre of Montenegro. While working with the firm, she has contributed to the UN Human Rights for the Judiciary Program sponsored by the UNDP, has given lecture on the importance of Human Rights Education for the Judiciary with the NGO Forum for Civic Education in Podgorica and on Filing a Case before the European Court for Human Rights at the Dubrovnik Human Rights School for Future Decision Makers.