Among the near a thousand magistrates called to change jobs in September, the Minister of Justice has crossed, a few weeks of the presidential election, the name of the investigating judge Serge Tournaire, who worked on business, including Bygmalion, involving Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Political or personal considerations have disrupted the complex but classic game, magistrates appointments. According to several sources, Eric Dupond-Moretti, Minister of Justice, intervened to block the appointment of at least three headquarters judges, for reasons unrelated to their skills.
On February 18, the Department’s Judicial Services Branch released the annual “transparency”. This is the list of geographical and functional mutations that will intervene in September. Nearly a thousand magistrates are, this time, concerned. There are high magistrates like Alain Vogelweith, former member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), current Chairman at the Lyon Court of Appeal, who will join that of Aix-en-Provence, or Hélène Cazaux-Charles, former Adviser Justice of Manuel Valls in Matignon, named general lawyer at the Court of Cassation, but also the less successful magistrates obtaining a position of children’s judge in Fort-de-France or that of the litigation judge of the Protection at Le Mans.
At the publication of this list, everyone goes there to seek his name. It is common to apply for several positions at a time without knowing his chances, while ten or twenty people can compete on the same position.
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The surprise came from the posts remained not provided, especially in Ile-de-France. To the point that Jean-Michel Hayat, the first president of the Paris Court of Appeal, directed, from February 18, to the evening, an e-mail to the presidents of the nine judicial tribunals he oversee (Paris, Bobigny, Créteil, Evry, etc.) to reassure them. “The reading of this day’s transparency is likely to create a real perplexity, having regard to the movements that could have been announced, expected or which appeared foreseeable”, writes Mr. Hayat in this missive that [Nute] could consult. Before adding: “I think it’s useful to clarify, on the basis of the details provided tonight by the Director of Judicial Services, that a complementary transparency should be broadcast within a fortnight.” But nothing n ‘ came.
Among these thousand names, a hole jumps to the eyes: that of the first vice president responsible for the instruction in the Paris court. Marc Sommerer, Dean of the Educational Judges of the Financial Pole, reached by the ten years limit on such a function, will leave in the summer. A call for applications was launched by the Ministry of Justice on 29 November 2021 for this position exposed and technical.
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