(ANSA) Rome, March 27 - The National Magistrates
Association (ANM) President, Rodolfo Sabelli, called Friday for
a "radical" reform of statute-of-limitation laws in Italy's
byzantine judicial system to stop timing-out of cases "becoming
the objective of trials."
To resolve the high number of cases timing out "one needs
to intervene in a more radical way interrupting definitively the
clock ticking even after the first level court judgement,"
Sabelli said.
His remarks were echoed by the secretary of the left-wing
magistrates' lobby Magistratura democratica, Anna Canepa, who
also urged "more courage" in the anti-corruption decree law
being prepared by the government, so to reinforce "the
effectiveness and deterrence in sanctions".
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