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(1) Private prosecutions, indictments and motions to indict by subsidiary prosecutors,proposals, legal remedies and other affidavits and statements shall be submitted inwriting or given orally for the record.(2) The briefs referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article must be comprehensible andcontain everything necessary for them to be acted on.(3) Unless prescribed otherwise in this Code, the court shall invite persons submittingbriefs which are not comprehensible or do not include everything required for them to beacted upon to rectify their briefs or amend them, and if they fail to do so by a prescribedtime limit, the brief shall be dismissed by the court.(4) The court’s instruction for rectification of the brief shall contain a caution about theconsequences of non-compliance.(5), The court may in accordance with the Rules of Court allow parties, aggrieved partiesand other participants to submit to the court their briefs, legal remedies, other affidavitsand statements in electronic form.(6) The records and documents referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article are also kept inthe court in electronic form, in accordance with the Rules of Court.Article 172Briefs which are pursuant to this Code served to the adverse party shall be delivered tothe court in a number of copies sufficient for the court and the other party. Where suchbriefs have not been delivered to the court in a sufficient number of copies, the courtshall make additional copies at the expense of the submitting party.Article 173(1) The court is required to protect its own reputation and those of parties and otherparticipants in proceedings from insults, threats or any other assaults.(2) The court shall impose a fine of up to 100,000 RSD on a defence counsel, proxy,legal representative, aggrieved party, private prosecutor or subsidiary prosecutor who ina brief or verbally offends the court or a person participating in the proceedings. Rulingson the penalty shall be issued by the investigating judge, or the chamber before whichthe statement was made, and if it was made in a brief – the court that is to decide on thebrief. Appeals may be filed against the ruling. Where a public prosecutor or personrepresenting the public prosecutor offends another, the competent public prosecutorshall be notified thereof. The bar association shall be notified of penalties imposed onlawyers or trainee lawyers.(3) The fines imposed under paragraph 1 of this Article in no way affect prosecution andpronouncement of penalties for a criminal offence committed by an insult.Article 174