The CSM convenes consultations with magistrates regarding the situation in the judicial system as a result of the Recorder documentary

The representatives of the professional associations of judges, as well as the representatives of the Ministry of Justice, were invited on Wednesday, December 17, to the headquarters of the Superior Council of the Magistracy, to “debate current issues in the context generated by the recent events regarding the judicial system”, announced the CSM in a press release.

Also, the SCM announced the consultation of all judges through an internal online questionnaire, to be answered by December 18, 2025.

There are seven points on the agenda established by the Superior Council of the Magistracy:

• Delegation, secondment, transfer of judges. Consequences on their activity in the court panels
• The perception of judicial independence
• The causes that influence the duration of judicial proceedings in criminal matters. The problem of prescription of criminal liability
• Remuneration of judges and their service pensions
• The volume of activity and the legislative and administrative causes that generated its increase. The need to regulate the activity of judges
• Freedom of expression of judges
• Other aspects.

The conclusions of these consultations, says the CSM, are to be presented by December 19, 2025.

Magistrates also invited to consultations by Nicușor Dan

For his part, President Nicușor Dan invited the magistrates who want to report integrity problems in the justice system to a discussion “without time limit” at the Cotroceni Palace, on December 22.

“When 200 magistrates say that there is a problem of integrity in the justice system, things are very serious. I invite all magistrates who want to complain about problems in the justice system to a discussion without a time limit on Monday, December 22, starting at 10:00 a.m. I am waiting for registrations at the address [email protected]”, Nicușor Dan wrote on Thursday, in a post on Facebook.

“Captured Justice”

The consultations come after the Recorder published an investigation on Tuesday evening about the state of justice in Romania, the phenomenon of prescriptions, but also the effects of the centralization of power at the level of “some magistrates who cohabit with politicians”.

In the Recorder documentary, the military prosecutor Liviu Lascu, Crin Bologa, the former chief prosecutor of the DNA between the periods of Laura Codruța Kovesi and Marius Voineag, but also a prosecutor from the DNA and a judge from the Court of Appeal, who spoke anonymously, were interviewed.