In the president of the Supreme Court Ioanna Clapawhich gave the Bar Associations yesterday because they did not move on their own in the case of the behavior of Zoe Konstantopoulou to the judges of the MOE headquarters. Lamia who was tried by the case of Epaminondas Korkonea, replies by her coordinating committee Plenary of the Bar Associations of Greece.

In a statement, the Steering Committee states that in order to initiate the disciplinary procedure against Mrs Konstantopoulou, the submission of disciplinary reports must be preceded, as “there is no possibility of ex officio investigation” and “to date, not even a mere report- no report has not been reported”.

Regarding the reference of Volos Eleni Beta, about the “heavy and repeated offensive behavior” of the same lawyer, cited by Ms. Clapa in yesterday’s announcement, the Steering Committee points out that “the projected disciplinary procedure has been immediately initiated,

Specifically, the announcement of the Coordination Committee is as follows:

“The Plenary Coordinating Committee of the Bar Associations of Greece, which met today on 21.6.2025, on the occasion of the Communication of the Supreme Court’s President dated 20.6.2025, issued the following announcement:

1. The President of the Supreme Court would expect to be aware of, as President of the Supreme Disciplinary Board of lawyers, that, in the event of any disciplinary offenses of lawyers before court, there is no possibility of existing investigations but a prerequisite for the proceedings and a prerequisite for the proceedings. ) and the Code of Lawyers (Article 155) is the prior submission of disciplinary reference, non -rest of the knowledge knowledge in any other way.

To date, not even a simple report- report has been reached by the Lamia Court of Appeal.

2. We are particularly impressed by the fact that the President of the Supreme Court just days before her retirement, instead of dealing with the criticism of the justice of justice on her term of office, intervenes in the public dialogue that has been developed between the Coordinating Committee and the Coordinating Committee and the Coordinating Committee Court of Justice with their converging and divergent positions on this matter.

Obviously, it has been particularly disturbed by the interventions of our institutions for both the protection of the rule of law and the bad texts in the functioning of Greek justice.

3. The Coordination Committee, with its aforementioned announcement dated 12.6.2025, called on the Association of Judges and Prosecutors, the largest trade union organization of the judges and prosecutors of the country, to be placed for disciplinary officers and not in order to do so.

The President of the CA should clearly be aware that in those cases who were reported to us such behaviors of judicial officers against lawyers, we have addressed the lawful actions for this law.

4. As to the mentioned reference to the Protodian Volos by a lawyer, we inform that the prescribed disciplinary procedure has been immediately initiated, but the secrecy that governs it, does not allow us to publicize further details of the case, which is not done by the President of the AP, in the public. Disciplinary jurisdiction, because of its seriousness, is obviously not to be part of communication management rationales.

We are pleased, however, that in this case, the President of the CA limits its interest in the functioning of lawyers’ disciplinary bodies and does not deal with the course of the criminal proceedings in the same case.

5. The Bar Brigade does not expect the suggestions of the President of the CA for safeguarding the lawyer’s dignity and the defendance of the prestige of the law firm. After all, he does it responsibly and timelessly. ”