"Opaque and anomalous conduct"
by individual magistrates risks undermining the autonomy and
credibility of the judiciary, Giovanni Legnini, vice president
of the Supreme Council of the Magistrature (CSM), the
judiciary's self-governing body, said Thursday.
"There is an impending concern within the Supreme Council
and the judiciary as a whole," Legnini said at the inauguration
of the 2016 judicial year.
"It is the concrete risk that the autonomy and independence
of the magistrature is undermined by a lessening of its
credibility and legitimacy as a result of opaque and anomalous
conduct," he continued.
"It is fundamental that the entire judiciary reacts to
defend a high ethical and deontological tension," Legnini
concluded.
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