By Helena Galaris

The investigation of the disciplinary responsibility of his president Supreme Court; Ioanna Clapaby the Minister of Justice George Floridisasks the Plenary session of Presidents of the Bar Associations of Greecefor the interventions, he says, of the Supreme Court’s leadership in the work of judges.

Specifically in the announcement it states:

The plenary of the Presidents of the Bar Associations of Greece, which met extraordinary in Athens on March 27, 2025, upon recommendation of the Coordination Committee and, after evaluating the repeated interventions of the Supreme Court’s leadership in the jurisdiction of the Greek judges,

1. The investigation of the disciplinary responsibility of the President of the Supreme Court in accordance with the Minister of Justice (Law 4938/2022) by the Minister of Justice, for its interventions, through circulars, instructions and the movement of disciplinary proceedings against judicial officers. ./.

2. The organization of a workshop on judicial independence, in cooperation with any judicial associations as they wish, to highlight the necessity of guarding the institutional guarantees that surround it.

3. The proposal to the Board of Directors of the country’s Bar Associations for abstaining a day from their duties as an expression of the law of the Bar, on the day the Coordination Committee will be identified.

4. Informing the competent institutions of the European Union and the plenary of the European Bar Associations (CCBE), pointing out the dangers of the acquis of European Legal Culture from the interventions of the leadership of justice in the jurisdiction of Greek judicial officials.