Lawyers criticize organisation of Justice in Spain
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 @ 10:19 AM
That is what it is showed in a survey that was presented at the General Council of Lawyers last wednesday the 20th of May.
88% of lawyers in Spain believe that judicial administration is in serious crisis and that it’s time for a State Pact to help to regenerate Justice. The survey gathers the opinion of 5243 practicing lawyers throughout Spain .
Mr.Carnicer, president of the General Council of Lawyers in Spain, stressed during the presentation that “ he has finally found the grave crisis in our administration of justice ", and that lawyers “do not discharge the liability in the courts, but in the organization of the Justice," and considered also relevant the fact that a large majority of respondents believe that governments, regardless the sign they are, come to justice "for manipulating it but not to remedy its ills."
Asked about the politicization of the CGPJ ( General Council of Judicial Power) , the president of the National Law Society considered that all the Councils to the present have been heavily politicized, and members have acted along following partisan criteria. "Their role is to defend judicial independence, and if it is attached to a political party, public resources for the administration of Justice can not be handled independently. However, he said "I see different signs in this new Council, also worrying about corporate signs, but less in terms of party political signs”
Carnicer noted that in his view, the main problem of the General Council of Judicial Power is "composition" ."The Administration of Justice is something which belongs to citizens and therefore is of general interest, so the CGPJ should be composed of great advisors, regardless their profession," with a " increased number of those professionals who have more daily contact with the Administration of Justice, namely the lawyers. “
For his part, Juan Jose Toharia, director of the company which made the survey, stressed that this is an "unprecedented survey” due to his magnitude and the fact of being made by assessing jurisdiction to jurisdiction and territory to territory, which has produces a detailed map of the real situation.
He also underlined the part of the study focused on new technologies, and asked to value "the effort that lawyers are doing to modernization, which contrasts with the gap of the Administration of Justice regarding new technologies," and that new technologies are “highly appreciated by lawyers."
Free Translation by Maria de Castro of spanish article in Noticias Juridicas
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