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.
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