The Bar Association of La Rochelle support magistrates
February 8, 2011 6:37 p.m.
The Council of the Bar Association of the Bar of La Rochelle-Rochefort made a motion of support to judges and officials of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de La Rochelle
Some magistrates and officials of the IMT Rochelle-Rochefort Monday decided the dismissal of the hearings until Thursday. Photo Dominique Jullian
Under the title "The State can not blame the functioning of justice to which he does not allocate the necessary human and material necessary for its operation, the Council of the Bar the Bar La Rochelle-Rochefort made a motion of support to judges and officials Tribunal de Grande Instance de La Rochelle (Rochefort). At their meeting Monday morning, magistrates and officials had denounced the intervention of the President of the Republic in the "Laetitia" Pornic (44), and the consequences of this intervention,
Therefore, while asking the adequate and reaffirming their commitment to public service of justice, judges and officials to postpone for two days, until Thursday night, the records of civil and criminal hearings, except for urgent matters.
reads the motion of the Council of the Bar:
"The recent pronouncements of the Department relating to the criminal treatment of the situation of the alleged murder of Laetitia Ferris, once again, the opportunity to inappropriate statements involving the work of magistrates and officials of Probation and massively violating the principle of presumption of innocence.
Echoing the national bar association, representing the legal profession, the Bar La Rochelle-Rochefort salutes the dignity and restraint of the victim's relatives in the painful circumstances that affect them.
He said that judicial independence is a fundamental guarantee of freedom in democratic countries and is constitutionally protected.
In respect of the separation of powers, it is necessary to respect the institutions and their roles, even though we exclude the possible questioning of the responsibility of the State because of malfunctions in the service public justice.
It should be noted that addressing the problem of recidivism in recent years has exclusively taken the form of a stack of laws for the occasion, without the means are given to actors in the criminal justice system to really put implement reforms time.
In this regard, the launch of a national plan of execution of sentences in the 14 high courts in which we observe the largest number of prison sentences will not run any significance in the absence of human and material resources necessary for the proper functioning of public service of justice.
lawyers to the Bar La Rochelle-Rochefort hereby intend to argue that they share the outrage of French judges in general and especially La Rochelle and gives them their full support. "
If the motion does not call to attend the event in Nantes on Thursday afternoon, several lawyers already announced they are willing to go.
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