Tuesday, January 15, lawyers, magistrates and clerks responded to the call of the National Council of Bars (CNB) and the inter-union of legal professionals and continued their mobilization against the reform of the justice within the framework of a national demonstration in Paris. Adopted at first reading by the National Assembly, the 2018-2022 programming bill carried by the Keeper of the Seals, Nicole Belloubet, goes through second reading from Tuesday January 15 until Monday January 21.
Among the measures challenged in this bill is the merger of the district and district courts, but also, among other things, an amendment which allows the justice of minors to be reformed by order.
“We affirm our opposition to a project which will have the effect of degrading the conditions in which justice is served. To the insufficiency of the means of the French justice, the government answers by a logic of rationing indicated the national union of the magistrates in a press release co-signed in particular by the Bar of Paris. In a petition launched a month earlier and which has already collected more than 25 signatures, the National Bar Council demands from Emmanuel Macron that the issue of justice reform be part of the great national debate: "it is therefore urgent to '' stop this parliamentary process to create the conditions for the widest possible public debate on equal access to justice in the territories, access to the rights of our fellow citizens, their individual and public freedoms, and politics criminal law of our Nation ”.
Locally, in Saint-Martin, the movement of January 15 was manifested by the display of leaflets in front of the courthouse, and the lawyers aware of the strike had all their files returned in protest and solidarity with the movement. national strike. The hearings of the district court and the execution judge were thus concerned.
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