Justice needs not reform 'bulimia' but resources - Ondei

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 27 - Italy's justice system does not need compulsive reform but adequate staffing and funding in order to meet ordinary and extraordinary needs such as the milestones set out in the post-Covid national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), the president of Milan's Court of Appeal, Giuseppe Ondei, said on Saturday.
    Justice does not need "reformist bulimia" but rather "to be administered and funded to (. ..) cope with ordinary and extraordinary needs such as those imposed by the objectives of the NRRP" involving a reduction in case backlogs and the duration of legal proceedings, said Ondei in a speech to open the judicial year.
    "In a situation of increasing shortage of administrative staff" and "magistrates", he added that these objectives are at risk "Experience", said Ondei, leads to the call for "stability" in the justice system as opposed to the "bulimia" of reforms.
    The court president also reiterated that judges should never be sanctioned "merely for having carried out a normal interpretative activity", even if their pronouncement turns out to be wrong.
    In his address to the court Ondei referred to the decision of Justice Minister Carlo Nordio to open disciplinary proceedings against three Milan appeal court judges for alleged negligence after they allowed Russian businessman Artem Uss out of prison custody and into house arrest from which he absconded last March following the approval of a US extradition request. (ANSA).