The problems in the last month, have affected the courts, through the gaps in Citius IT platform, will further exacerbate the lack of confidence in the courts, provides the President of the Supreme Court of Justice Henriques Gaspar.
The magistrate was speaking on Thursday at the opening of the Tenth Congress of Portuguese Judges, held in Troy. “Circumstances that have affected last month the justice system will surely thicken the difficult road to recovery we felt indices confidence [in court], “said Henriques Gaspar. He added: “The job is now more difficult and urgent. The path we have to walk is, as we well know, the ropes. “
More incisive, president of the Professional Association of Portuguese Judges, Mouraz Lopes, lamented that the reorganization of the courts of first instance which entered into force on 1 September last has not been properly prepared. “There is a serious problem of atrophy of the judicial system, with consequences still difficult to predict,” he criticized. “The public image of the courts stopped and stacked process can not continue. Courts which lack staff and conditions are evidence of blind and cyclical austerity “he said.
For Judge-advisor of the Court, if the courts were placed in an exceptionally difficult situation with this, it is necessary that the Ministry of Justice also throw hand of exceptional measures to address the problems: “human and financial means exceptional.”
The closure of 20 courts, the passage of the 27 sections of proximity and reducing skills many other sets, according to the president of the Professional Association of Portuguese Judges, a true “reduced access to rights provided to citizens.” Mouraz Lopes stressed the “urgent path to a resolution.”
The President of the Republic, Cavaco Silva, who was not present, but sent a message read at the beginning of the congress, held that “Portugal urgently needs one closest to the citizens and also serving the economic and social development system faster and fairer justice. “
Cavaco also found that the” accomplishment of this Congress and its agenda are a sign clear that the Portuguese judges are attuned to the challenges of the new time and the demands of citizenship that result from it. ” The president did not comment directly, but the installed controversy concerning the almost total shutdown of the courts.
Have the Justice Minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz, again portraying the stoppage of the courts of 1st instance as “constraints” that have passed. “I will not conceal the problems we had in the computing platform. In time we will realize what has happened in four days. The important thing now is to take care of the living. “
The official also warned that” not accept the mystification of thing did not happen. ” Said, moreover, “there are things we all know that did not happen.” Before an audience of about 400 judges, most of 1st instance, Paula Teixeira da Cruz was assumed, despite the criticism he had received since the beginning of this month, as an advocate for better justice. “Count me in too. I will be your lawyer first, “said the judges.
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