Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 5:17:03 GMT -4
“Can it be stated that the existence of a General Council of the Judiciary, whose mandate has already been exhausted for almost five years, is part of democratic normality? "Is a Supreme Court whose staff is reduced by more than 30% and some of whose chambers are on the verge of collapse compatible with democratic normality?" the president of the Supreme Court has asked.
The High Court adds, with the retirement of a magistrate today, 23 vacancies for magistrates : two in the First Chamber, one in the Second Chamber, Eleven in the Third Chamber, six Email Data in the Fourth Chamber and three in the Fifth Chamber. The situation, Marín has described, is leading to a decrease in the numbers of resolutions of appeals by sentence and it is unfeasible to add even more workload to the remaining magistrates. “ The impact on the rule of law is extremely serious ” and “the first victim of this situation is the defendant,” he stressed.
During his speech, there have been constant allusions to the importance of judicial independence as “the key to our function (…) that ensures the principle of separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.” The attacks on judicial independence and the repeated and open confrontation between the different political forces, he has insisted, undermine the credibility of the institution.
The acting president recalled the repeated calls from the European Commission for the CGPJ to be urgently renewed and the condemnatory ruling that, along these lines, was handed down by the ECHR, pointing out that the delay was unjustified and was generating serious dysfunctions in the functioning of the judicial system. “Although we are plural and have visions that may not coincide, we are not pulleys for the transmission of political agendas.”
The High Court adds, with the retirement of a magistrate today, 23 vacancies for magistrates : two in the First Chamber, one in the Second Chamber, Eleven in the Third Chamber, six Email Data in the Fourth Chamber and three in the Fifth Chamber. The situation, Marín has described, is leading to a decrease in the numbers of resolutions of appeals by sentence and it is unfeasible to add even more workload to the remaining magistrates. “ The impact on the rule of law is extremely serious ” and “the first victim of this situation is the defendant,” he stressed.
During his speech, there have been constant allusions to the importance of judicial independence as “the key to our function (…) that ensures the principle of separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution.” The attacks on judicial independence and the repeated and open confrontation between the different political forces, he has insisted, undermine the credibility of the institution.
The acting president recalled the repeated calls from the European Commission for the CGPJ to be urgently renewed and the condemnatory ruling that, along these lines, was handed down by the ECHR, pointing out that the delay was unjustified and was generating serious dysfunctions in the functioning of the judicial system. “Although we are plural and have visions that may not coincide, we are not pulleys for the transmission of political agendas.”