DOLNJI SUHOR-Memorial plaque First Assembly of Slovenian Lawyers

The first gathering of Slovenian lawyers on liberated territory took place on 10 and 11 October 1943 in Metlika and on Suhorju. One hundred and twenty lawyers attended, who had joined the national liberation struggle either as fighters or as collaborators. After the introductory speech by Dr. Maks Šnuderl, seven reports were read, followed by a discussion. A special committee drafted a resolution in which the lawyers emphasized their fundamental duty to involve themselves in the national liberation struggle with all their abilities, which is just in a moral sense and grounded in valid national law.

The Belokranjska tehnika reproduced the cyclostyled brochure "Spomenica o prvem zboru slovenskih pravnikov" (Memorial of the First Gathering of Slovenian Lawyers) in 1944.

The plaque on the post office building, where the gathering took place, was unveiled by the Society of Lawyers of the People's Republic of Slovenia on 21 July 1954.

Source: Archive of the ZB NOB Metlika (82)

Guide to Partisan Paths, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1978, p. 138.

Photo: M. Hladnik