A bill designed to speed up Italy's
notoriously slow civil trial process moved from the Lower House
House to the Senate Thursday.
The House passed several to the reform bill to simplify
Italian civil trial procedure.
An amendment by Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party
(PD) stipulates a maximum three-month wait for first hearings in
the "simplified trial" format.
The bill aims to speed up the snail-paced system by
offering more recourse to arbitration than trial and limiting
the number of trials that will have more than one sitting judge.
Meanwhile the Senate passed a bill reforming honorary
magistrates and justices of the peace.
The bill moves to the House.
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