For magistrates, clerks and lawyers, the account is still not there. One year after the publication, in the columns of the Mondefrom the gallery of 3,000 magistrates and a hundred clerks, who castigated a “discounted justice”, a day of “general mobilization” was organized on Tuesday, November 22, by nineteen trade unions or professional organisations. In Paris, an appointment was given in front of the judicial court, where around 200 people met at midday.
For the personnel mobilized, too little has changed in twelve months. And this, even if the budget is experiencing a third increase in a row and the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, has announced, among other things, the recruitment of 1,500 magistrates and 1,500 clerks over the five-year term.
“A year after the tribune, justice is still not repaired, the figures are not good”advances Ludovic Friat, brand new president of the Union of Judges, a majority organization and which presents itself as apolitical. « We take into account the progress made and the fact that politicians have taken up the problem. But in the courts, we do not see any improvement”, he specifies.
“General malaise”
In his eyes, the increase in the budget and the recruitments hide, on the part of the Chancellery, a desire to gain in ” productivity “. “We no longer want a pile of reforms without the corresponding means”he adds, referring to a “general malaise” and a number of « burn-out » rising.
His colleagues from the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM, left) also want to warn about the “insufficient resources, 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 estimated that 5,000 magistrates were missing. It is off the mark “, advances Mrs Reuflet.
She deplores, like Mr. Friat, the “very difficult working conditions”them “hearings that end at 2 a.m. [et] immediate chain appearances”. Difficulties which, according to her, have serious consequences, in particular in civil law. “ We are overloaded with files and we must be mobilized for immediate appearances. Result: we have to make sacrifices, particularly with regard to family litigation and industrial tribunals. »
The lawyers also regret the lack of human resources, in particular for the industrial tribunal. “We spend our time doing the procedure. We need more magistrates and more court clerks. The delays are getting longer and longer”observes Me Savine Bernard, of the Syndicate of Lawyers of France.
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