The Keeper of the Seals, weakened because of his possible dismissal to the Court of Justice of the Republic, savor the reception reserved for his reform program. But tensions remain.
by Abel Mestre
Is this just a truce or the sign of a new start? Since the presentation, on January 5, of his “action plan”, resulting from the work of the States General for Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti seems relieved. Relieved, first, to have been able to reveal his sixty measures which affect all areas of justice, and to have been able to catch up with the cleansing of December 2022, where these announcements had been suddenly postponed. To continue on its momentum, the Keeper of the Seals officially presented, Friday, January 13, its “great amicable policy” in civil procedure, before foreign and French magistrates, lawyers or even law teachers. An innovation that is close to his heart and which he sees as a solution to reduce the settlements of settlement of this litigation.
relieved, Eric Dupond-Moretti is also because his roadmap, of an unprecedented scale, offers him a political respite. His supporters underline, with barely concealed pleasure, that the health plan must have been taken over by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and that on the side of the rue de Grenelle, the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye , has difficulty being heard and printing your brand. Clearly, his loved ones believe that he weighs heavier than ever in the government.
The Keeper of the Seals is relieved, finally, because even his harshest contemptors were forced to salute the work done, in particular the budgetary effort, with the objective of reaching 11 billion euros in 2027, Or an increase of 7.5 billion on the five -year term. This is the case, for example, of magistrates’ unions. Admittedly, the union of the judiciary is still very critical on the content of the plan, seeing, for example, in the strengthening of the amicable policy a movement of “diversion”, or even worrying about a security turning point in the field of criminal procedure. But the majority training of the profession, the union union of magistrates, said herself “satisfied” with the work of Mr. Dupond-Moretti. Unheard of since the arrival, in the summer of 2020, of the former lawyer, Place Vendôme.
a half-word
However, not all tensions have disappeared. Among the actors of the legal world, we take note of the announcements, but we carefully observe their implementation. With all the decorum that characterizes the high magistrates and in a felted tone, François Molins, attorney general at the Court of Cassation, criticized, in hollow, the action of the minister, during his speech, Monday, January 9, at the Solemn return audience of the Court of Cassation. Firstly welcoming “the important step” concerning the budget and the creation of 10,000 additional jobs in five years – including 1,500 magistrates and 1,500 clerks -, Mr. Molins wanted to underline “the deep crisis of justice (… ) that an increase in budgetary means will not be enough to lift alone “, even evoking” a deep discouragement and especially of suffering “.
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