With constructive opinions in addition to observations and proposals from the competent extra-parliamentary our bodies – who had been invited to submit their opinions – the second dialogue of the Ministry of Justice’s invoice, in regards to the modernization of the Council of State and the tincreased model of judicial selections.
Nonetheless, the assembly was characterised by the extreme verbal confrontation between the Minister of Justice, George Floridis and the president of Freedom of Navigation, Zoe Konstantopoulou.
The event was the intervention of Mrs. Konstantopoulou throughout the listening to of the our bodies, who requested the withdrawal of the invoicedenouncing the management of the Ministry of Justice, for “inadequate and substantial session with all concerned our bodies”, for “quick observe parliamentary procedures” and “violation of human rights and the rule of legislation”.
Mr. Floridis reacted strongly, objecting that “the invoice was in session for 23 days and all those that had been actually within the new laws submitted their opinions and it was handed by a call of the plenary session of the CoE”.
“If we are saying that we respect democracy and establishments, we should additionally respect them. Let’s respect the best course of which is the session”, emphasised Mr. Floridis whereas accusing Ms. Konstantopoulou of violating the Guidelines of Process of the Parliament.
“Bowling shouldn’t be acceptable to us,” added Mr. Floridis, upsetting the response of Ms. Konstantopoulou, who spoke of ridiculous studies about session and added that “the rule of legislation shouldn’t be restricted to what whoever noticed it, noticed it or owed to know”.
“The regulation of the Parliament is being flagrantly violated. Right now’s assembly is for non-parliamentary our bodies. For the primary time in parliamentary historical past, there may be an intervention within the listening to of our bodies”, mentioned the final rapporteur of the ND, Athanasios Zambilis.
The views of the companies
The president of the Union of Judicial Officers of the Council of State, Panagiotis Tsoukas, mentioned he was constructive in regards to the invoice, talking of crucial reform that has ever been made because the institution of the CoE.
As he emphasised, “the intention of the brand new legislative initiative is to rationalize and deal with the causes and the fundamental logic that governs it’s to alter the annulment process and to deal with the issue of the lengthy delays noticed within the issuance of judicial selections”.
“The Ministry of Justice consulted very nicely, with all of the judges, and the principle objective is to conduct severe trials with diligence and in a short while,” emphasised Mr. Tsoukas.
For his half, the member of the Board of Administrators of the Union of Judicial Officers of the Supreme Court docket, Dimitris Tsarouhas, expressed reservations in regards to the feasibility of the availability for the digital authorization of the celebration to the lawyer.
The consultant of the Athens Bar Affiliation, Vassilis Papageorgiou, was strongly crucial of the invoice, stressing that “because the provisions are launched within the context of the annulment trial, contradictions and sloppiness are noticed that aren’t per the aim of the reforms and the acceleration of the procedures”.
He additionally spoke about piecemeal laws, suffocating deadlines and unstable standards for annulment proceedings.
The president of the Bar Affiliation of Lamia and consultant of the plenary session of the presidents of the Bar Associations of Greece, Thanasis Makrygiannis, additionally expressed his opposition to the invoice, arguing, amongst different issues, that it degrades the enchantment, restrictions are positioned on the train of judicial rights, procedural rights are curtailed, whereas they don’t seem to be resolved severe points akin to lengthy delays in decision-making.
“The invoice is shifting in the suitable path, in a great line”, emphasised the consultant of the Federation of Judicial Officers of Greece, Georgia Kalantzi.
The president of the Union of Judicial Officers of the Court docket of Audit, Konstantinos Efentakis, expressed his full satisfaction with the provisions of the invoice, mentioning that their requests had been absolutely adopted, whereas the views of the president of the Affiliation of CoE Staff, Marina Stavropoulou, had been in the identical path. including that “the reform is geared toward dashing up justice and so long as there isn’t a circumvention of the pre-trial, the specified consequence will come”.
For her half, the president of the Affiliation of Judicial Officers of the Administrative Courts of Athens, Fotini Rozi, centered on the understaffing of the courts, noting that whereas the positions of advisers within the CoE are rising, the positions of judicial officers aren’t rising, with the consequence that the ratio is insufferable.
Lastly, the final secretary of the Panhellenic Union of Secretaries of Administrative Courts, emphasised the need of fast interventions to cowl the vacant organizational positions within the courts, in any other case, as he estimated, it would trigger a brake on the objective of the invoice for a sooner administration of justice.
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