In the framework of the States General of Justice, litigants from all over the country have been chosen to develop proposals to feed the reflection, also conducted by groups of experts.
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Blue, yellow or pink memos accumulate as so many patchworks on three panels. To the question, “Ideal justice for you?” Located on one of them, these rectangles of paper respond “rapid justice”, “justice that satisfies the victim and the accused”, “simplified with more than clarity and understanding “,” which evolves with the time and the subjects of society “, etc.
“What worries you in the current functioning of justice?” Asks the second panel. “The slowness of civil procedures”, “the lack of means”, “too many sentences and not enough alternatives”, “Laxism”, “Financial discrimination”, respond these scribbled minimizations by forty-eight “citizens” together In the basement of a connected coworking space of the 11 e arrondissement, in Paris.
from different regions of the country, they participated, Thursday, December 2, at the “deliberative citizen workshop” organized in the framework of the States General of Justice. After this first day devoted to the findings, the exchange of ideas or experiences on the functioning of justice, they will meet on December 14, to develop proposals.
“She is not Corrupted “
necessarily interested in matters relating to justice, since they are among the 900 people who have made known on the site Paronsjustice.fr that they were voluntary to be contacted, they are nevertheless dubious on the democratic nature lent to the exercise. “Is it a stroke of the government?” Asks a law student, from the first collective session, where each participant, stripped by a label with his name, presents himself. “Me, I’m an eternal grumbler, never happy”, launches a gray man.
The precedent of the Citizen Climate Convention is in the spirits, with the disappointment caused by the promise not holding a recovery “without filter” proposals. “I do not understand why a committee will select our proposals,” says a participant. “Why is there not a citizen in the final committee?” Query another. General Approval. The question will be forwarded to the Committee of the States General, chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé, responsible for ensuring the impartiality of the process and the final report at the end of February.
The only commitment made this time is the full publication of the proposals to which the citizen workshop will arrive. Two of the forty-eight citizens will also have to participate in the end of January at the “Convergence Workshop”, supposed to work from the proposals of the thematic expert groups to achieve a shared vision on priorities.
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