Career separation will weaken magistrates says ANM chief

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 10 - 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. (ANSA).