Career separation will weaken magistrates says ANM chief

The government's plan to separate the
career paths of prosecutors and judges so they can no longer
switch between the two will weaken Italy's magistrates, Giuseppe
Santalucia, the head of the National Association of Magistrates
(ANM), the judiciary's union, told its 36th annual convention on
Friday.

   
"The project of separating careers, stubbornly pursued even
after the separation of functions has been diluted to the
extreme, carries with it the germ of weakening the jurisdiction,
at least the criminal one", the ANM president said.

   
Santalucia added that Justice Minister Carlo Nordio's bill
clamping down on the publication of
information from wiretaps from criminal investigations
"represents a push to reduce judicial action boundaries",
hampering probes.

   

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