After two weeks of almost total paralysis of the lower courts because of a malfunction of Citius IT platform, President of the Republic, Cavaco Silva, admitted that not everything is going well in the Portuguese justice.
“Apparently not everything went the best, but certainly my wish would be that he had run for the best,” Cavaco said, at a time when the Ministry of Justice continues to not commit to a deadline for resolving the issue . Were expected news on the subject at the meeting of judges which began yesterday in Figueira da Foz, but Justice Minister skipped the opening ceremony, explaining the absence with health problems, and sent in his stead the Secretary of State António Costa Moura. This ruler was sparing in explanations and referred to this Monday the presentation of a “point of full update” on the problem. It merely promised “soon” the completion of the electronic migration of court proceedings and to ensure that “not lost an attached, a document” even transfer between the old and the new system, although several cases have reached court . destination with documents unless
And if some told magistrates understand the situation – “if not more said, you do not know”, “it is a technical problem, and not politics “- either on the part of the Association of Portuguese Judges Association of the Bar Association wants the reaction to the words of Secretary of State was tough. “It is inconceivable that ministers have already fallen because of the collapse of a bridge and that when the judicial system is totally collapsed, the lady minister does not appear, seeking refuge in his office,” commented bastonária lawyers, Elina Fraga, that even compared prolonged enumeration of statistics and measures of the Ministry of Justice made by the Secretary of State in his speech with the action of the minister of Saddam Hussein who claimed that everything was okay when Baghdad was under bombardment: “You know nothing of justice, knows nothing of the functioning of the courts, came to a miserable propaganda. ” Elina Fraga also drew attention to “the millions of processes still in crates and warehouses in court without a judge can verify that there is in some of them a period of impending expiry.”
“We need to know when restarts the computer system to operate, but the Ministry of Justice does not undertake, “also criticized the secretary-general of the Trade Union Association of Portuguese Judges, José Maria Coastal, lamenting that the Secretary of State António Costa Moura has not taken the opportunity to give clarifications to the magistrates.
“We can not continue in this limbo,” agreed the president of union membership, Mouraz Lopes, suggesting, once again, that the lack of a technological solution, guardianship enverede for a solution legislation intended to freeze the legal terms that are running to judicial documents until the problem is solved. “Is upon us, magistrates and lawyers, the citizens who will fall when realizing delays”, noted the union leader. “The situation is so serious that we are absolutely baffled by what is happening.”
But the sleep that takes the president of the Supreme Court of Justice Henriques Gaspar, seems to be the Citius, but paths of profit and the “cult of speed” that some want to print to justice. The protection of rights “is not a function of the economy,” he noted. “Is it really expensive, and therefore anti-managerial”. At the solemn opening session of the annual meeting of the judges, organized every year by the Supreme Judicial Council, the Chief Justice has fired a warning: the temptation to apply to justice “prospects management own private sectors the economy, putting the emphasis on results and not procedures “, can give bad result, because” justice does not manufacture products for consumer satisfaction, nor has the mission to produce low-cost market and have profit. “said Henriques Gaspar liked to banish the sphere of justice the term “speed”:. “Justice does not have to be ‘quick’ has to decide within a reasonable time,” said “The criteria of time and cost can undermine judicial identities.” <. / p>
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