Length of Italy's trials down significantly - ministry

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 14 - Efforts to speed up Italy's slow judicial system are starting to bear fruit, according to figures released by the justice ministry on Friday.
    It said the length of civil trials was down by 18. 4% and criminal trials by 13.9%.
    It said the best performance regarded the supreme Court of Cassation, where civil and criminal case times were down by 25.1% and 23.3% respectively.
    It added that the backlog of cases in first-instance courts was down by 6.7% and by 24.1% in appeals courts.
    The government has passed reforms of Italy's civil and criminal justice systems designed to speed them up as part of the pledges agreed with the European Commission to obtain close to 200 billion euros in grants and low-interest loans for its post-COVID National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
    Italy has pledged to bring down the length of civil trials by 40% and criminal ones by 25% by 2026 with respect to the times registered in 2019. (ANSA).