This publication is present as part of the project entitled “Strengthening of judicial capacities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to harmonise domestic judicial practice with European legal standards”. The right to trial within a “reasonable time” is one of the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and the question of its compliance is open. often in many spheres. Requirements relating to a trial within a “reasonable time” affect all aspects of the justice system, and prescribed guarantees are essential to create a framework in which the rights guaranteed by the Convention will be practical and effective, and not just theoretical and illusory, as the Strasbourg Court often observes.