Italy's justice system does not need
compulsive reform but adequate staffing and funding in order to
meet ordinary and extraordinary needs such as the milestones set
out in the post-Covid national recovery and resilience plan
(NRRP), the president of Milan's Court of Appeal, Giuseppe
Ondei, said on Saturday.
Justice does not need "reformist bulimia" but rather "to be
administered and funded to (...) cope with ordinary and
extraordinary needs such as those imposed by the objectives of
the NRRP" involving a reduction in case backlogs and the
duration of legal proceedings, said Ondei in a speech to open
the judicial year.
"In a situation of increasing shortage of administrative staff"
and "magistrates", he added that these objectives are at risk
"Experience", said Ondei, leads to the call for "stability" in
the justice system as opposed to the "bulimia" of reforms.
The court president also reiterated that judges should never be
sanctioned "merely for having carried out a normal
interpretative activity", even if their pronouncement turns out
to be wrong.
In his address to the court Ondei referred to the decision of
Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to open disciplinary proceedings
against three Milan appeal court judges for alleged negligence
after they allowed Russian businessman Artem Uss out of prison
custody and into house arrest from which he absconded last March
following the approval of a US extradition request.
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