As lawyers begin their seventh week of strike against pension reform, the functioning of justice is "severely degraded" and "permanently disorganized", alerted the magistrates presiding over the national conferences of heads of court and jurisdiction, this Thursday .
These high magistrates “call to find as soon as possible the ways of resolution of this crisis”. In early January, lawyers began a new strike to protest the pension reform, which will double the contributions of lawyers earning less than 40,000 euros per year.
The courts, "collateral victims"
The movement has led to the dismissal of thousands of hearings and aggravates the congestion of the courts. "The referrals in number of hearing cases, the massive requests filed in the field of litigation of freedoms permanently disrupt the processing of civil and criminal files, to the detriment of the interests of litigants", write these magistrates, who express "their deepest concern" . "The current functioning of the already fragile judicial system is greatly degraded," they add.
The press release is signed by four senior magistrates, including Marie-Suzanne Le Quéau, president of the national conference of attorneys general and attorney general at the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal, and Xavier Ronsin, president of the national conference of the first presidents and first president of the Rennes Court of Appeal. The lawyers' movement "aims only to exert pressure on the government" and the courts are the "collateral victims of a conflict over which they have no control", regret the magistrates.
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"These protest actions impose unjustified additional workloads on the registry staff, which increases their unhappiness when the vacancy rate of their staff is already too high", they underline. Magistrates and clerks have felt "unacceptable pressure" during the interventions of lawyers, criticize these magistrates, who express "their support for all court staff and magistrates".
These presidents of national conferences of heads of courts and tribunals say they are "ready to participate in any reflection" on the future of the legal profession. Several bars have renewed the strike movement, some until March, while the National Bar Council (CNB), which represents 70,000 French lawyers, denounces a dialogue of the deaf with the Chancellery.
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