A year after the 3,000 magistrates’ gallery, a general mobilization day was organized on Tuesday by nineteen union and professional organizations, for whom too little has changed in twelve months.
by Abel Mestre
For magistrates, clerks and lawyers, the account is still not there. A year after the publication, in the columns of the world, of the tribune of the 3,000 magistrates and a hundred clerks, who castigated “justice at a discount”, a day of “general mobilization” was organized, Tuesday, November 22 , by nineteen trade union or professional organizations. In Paris, an appointment was given before the judicial court, where about 200 people met at midday.
For mobilized staff, too little has changed in twelve months. And this, even if the budget is experiencing a third increase in a row and that the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, announced, among other things, the recruitment of 1,500 magistrates and 1,500 clerks on the five-year term. >
“A year after the gallery, justice is still not repaired, the figures are not good,” says Ludovic Friat, brand new president of the union union of magistrates, majority organization and who presents himself as apolitical . “We take into account the advances and the fact that the politician has taken up the problem. But in the courts, we do not see any improvement,” he said.
“Mal- be generalized “
In his eyes, the rise in the budget and recruitments hide, from the Chancellery, a desire to gain “productivity”. “We no longer want a stack of reforms without the related means”, he adds, evoking a “generalized malaise” and a number of “burn-out” increasing.
His colleagues at the Syndicat de la Magistracy (SM, left) also want to alert on “insufficient means, despite the announcements”. Its president, Kim Reuflet, mentions the “abyss” between the recruitments announced by Mr. Dupond-Moretti and the reality of the needs: “The heads of jurisdictions had assessed that it lacked 5,000 magistrates. We are far from the account” Mme Reuflet.
She deplores, like Mr. Friat, the “very difficult working conditions”, the “audiences that end at 2 am [and] immediate relevations to the chain”. Difficulties which, according to her, have heavy consequences, especially in civil law. “We are overloaded with a file and we must be mobilized on immediate appearances. Result: we must make sacrifices, in particular with regard to family litigation and industrial tribunal.”
Lawyers also regret the lack of human resources, especially for prud’homal justice. “We spend our time doing the procedure. We need more magistrates and more clerks. The deadlines are more and more long,” observes Me Savine Bernard, of the French lawyer union.
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