The heads of the Supreme Court and the SCM refuse the invitation of the Minister of Justice to meet the leaders of the judicial institutions: “An image exercise” / what the minister says

President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, Lia Savonea, refuses to go to The meeting scheduled by the Minister of Justice for Thursday, September 4, to which the heads of eight institutions in the field of justice were guests. It accuses “an exercise in image”. Minister Radu Marinescu explained for Hotnews that the invitation was launched to the heads of eight institutions in July, before starting the crisis generated by the change of special pensions, and the purpose is to find concrete solutions regarding the efficiency of the judicial system. In addition to the head of the ICCJ, he declined the invitation and president of the Superior Council of Magistracy, Elena Costache.

“ICCJ will not participate in an organized meeting at an extremely difficult time that justice crosses. By the way it was conceived and publicized it seems rather an image exercise than a real dialog. transmitted on Wednesday by Lia Savonea to the Minister of Justice.

The president of the supreme court emphasizes that, “instead of an honest dialogue and real solutions, justice is facing a public discourse that relativizes the independence of judges, reduces the status of magistracy at simple budgetary costs and feeds the false perception of privileges.”

“This disregard of the role of magistracy affects not only the professional body, but also the confidence of the citizen in the rule of law. In such a climate, the formal participation in image exercises would be equivalent to the validation of these skids. ICCJ reaffirms that it is open to the institutional dialog The citizen to a credible and efficient justice ”, is mentioned in the response communicated to the Ministry of Justice.

And the president of the Superior Council of Magistracy, Elena Costache, said that she will not participate in the meeting on Thursday convened the lase of the Ministry of Justice. So far, they have announced that the head of the ICCJ and the SCM will not be presented, and the representatives of the other institutions have not transmitted any answer, said the Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu.

“Excluded any image excess”

Contacted by HotNews, the Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu, said that the invitation was sent two months ago to the representatives of eight institutions: the Superior Council of Magistracy, the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the National Institute of Magistracy, the National Union of the National Union, the National Union of the National Union Judges and the National School of Clerks. “A meeting in order to identify the best solutions to improve the activity in the field of justice,” the invitation was mentioned.

“I would not like to comment or give a reply. I took note of the position of the people, but I can say one thing: the invitation is sent from July, that is, before debuting this protest situation, so any image exercise is excluded. On the other hand, in my opinion, if together we find solutions for the judiciary, I have to make a goodness for the judiciary Citizens, ”said the Minister of Justice for Hotnews.

Radu Marinescu stressed that the dialogue with the heads of the eight legal institutions did not concern the issue of wages and service pensions.

“It was a dialogue that was meant to help find solutions together for the problems that greatly interest the citizen: the duration of the processes, the quality of the legislation and the necessary legislative changes on procedures, digitization and accelerating the procedures by remote processes, the relief of the personnel, the balancing of the personnel schemes, the infrastructure of the courts. It was to uniform a little perspectives, to dialogue to do a working pattern in the future, maybe a discussion forum, a good faith and constructive intention to identify solutions, ”added the minister.

Among the topics of interest on the agenda of the meeting on Thursday, in addition to the digitization of the justice act are: “Updating the stamp court fees and establishing them as a support for investments in judicial infrastructure, identifying methods to make the procedure of administering the evidence by lawyers or legal advisers which formulates contraventional complaints with bad faith or manifestly unfounded and identifying alternative solutions, all in order to disgust the activity of the courts ”.

They will be subject to debates, the minister announced, and the promotion of alternative tools for resolving trials in court, introducing adequate procedures for filtering the court notification, capable of reducing the inflation of cases that do not require a judicial settlement, respectively the revision of the legislative framework, in particular of the procedure rules.

The modification of the special pension system in the judiciary was between the five projects in the package 2 of fiscal measures for which the Bolojan Government on Monday was responsible in Parliament. The project was harshly criticized by the SCM and generated protests in the Romanian courts and prosecutor's offices, by suspending the activity.