Reservations from the CoE for the bill of the National School of Judges.

By Ioanna Mandrou

The Plenary Session of the Council expressed reservations about two provisions of the government bill which changes the data of education and training of judicial officers, as the framework of the National School of Judges (is the School from which the new judges graduate) is determined by new regulations. .

The Plenary Session of the Supreme Court met as an administrative body and not as a judiciary, judging by opinion two provisions of the bill for the National School of Judges, one of which has provoked strong reactions from the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, which held an electronic referendum. with a result of 1075 judges participating and 97.1 of them voting “no”.

According to the decision of the Administrative Plenary Session of the Council of State regarding the provision regarding the internship of the new judges and the evaluation of their performance at this stage, it was judged that the candidates judges in the eight months they will practice in courts, will be evaluated, graded and their performance will count for their final evaluation, as the attendance of theoretical courses is expected to count. However, according to the CoC, the supervisors of the internship of judges will have a free choice for the way of the final grading of the candidate judges.

Regarding the provision that had provoked a storm of reactions from the Union of Judges and Prosecutors, regarding the obligation of incumbent judges to attend seminars every year for two days and to be graded after attending them, the CoC ruled that the seminars should be mandatory, but judges should not then be questioned about what they learned from their monitoring.

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