ROME: The government’s extensive government of Mario Draghi has overcome the in-depth division to approve the reform of contested justice reform, which is demanded by the European Union as part of an agreement to open billions of euros in recovery funds.
Italy has long been closed by a judicial system that is dysfunctional, very slow, but repeated efforts to roll up has failed to reduce backlogs in many courts.
The views that opposed sharply between the parties had complicated efforts to improve the situation, but the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia managed to reach a compromise agreement on Thursday that government expectations would increase efficiency.
“Italy has taken a significant advanced step in modernizing the justice system and accelerating the trial,” said Minister of Regional Affairs Mariastella Gelmini, member of Forza Italia Party Silvio Berlusconi.
Legal design will now go to parliament for approval.
Perhaps the most contested part of reform is another revision for the Limitations Act, which automatically stops the trial if a verdict is not achieved within the time limit specified when crime is carried out.
The Italian justice system has three degrees of assessment, which means the defendant can make two appeals.
The 5-star movement, the largest party in parliament, has long been pushed to eliminate the deadline for prosecution after the initial verdict was reached, on the grounds that many violators, especially white-collar criminals, avoided justice by delaying the court process.
Cartabia attacked a compromise by freezing the limited law at the end of the opening trial for a number of crimes, including corruption, but regulates the restrictions on the next appeal that the two defendants and prosecutors have the right to pursue.
While the 5-star minister agreed to the agreement, there were differences of opinion in the ranks of the party, which was worried that the core message of zero tolerance for grafting was threatened.
“I appreciate the work done by the Cartabian minister, but I will not sing victory.
I am not happy with the Limitations Act,” said former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who wants to control a 5-star group that breaks down.
Among the less contested sections of reforms is the steps to encourage the defendant to seek bidding bargaining and norms that must force prosecutors and initial judges to only bring cases to court where they can secure confidence.
Thousands of support staff will also be employed in the courtroom to help the judge speed up the process.
Recent data from the Ministry of Justice has underlined the problems faced by the Italian Criminal Court, with the initial trial which lasted 478 days on average between 2019/20, up 22% in the previous year’s year, while the first appeal rose on average 1,038 days, up 24%.
The next and final appeal to the Supreme Court took an average of 287 days, up 111%.
A report issued this month said the situation was worse in civil and commercial cases, where the trial needed an average of more than 500 days for the first sentence, almost 800 for appeal and 1,300 for the final assessment of the worst in Europe.
Civil law reform is still done.