“The direction of the Ministry of Justice is that we will slowly change a culture, which will help the evolution of the judicial system and the treatment of the pathologies, as they are recorded by society and citizens”, said Mr. Tsiaras.
“I am one of those who believe that justice and its functioning have a direct correlation with the economic development of the country. This is not only derived from studies, but from reality itself”, said the Minister of Justice, Kostas Tsiaras, speaking earlier at the conference on justice organized by the Circle of Ideas.
“The fundamental question is not who is to blame and we are here. The causes are more or less known, as are the results which have been, or continue to be, produced by the reforms of late. It is not a question of performance, but the assumption of responsibilities, so that each of us contributes to the rationalization of the system.
Reforms are like transplants. Compatibility between donor and recipient is needed,” said Mr. Tsiaras, referring to an earlier statement by the Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis.
“Justice,” he added, “does not operate in a vacuum, nor in a neutral socio-political context. Assessment, lifelong learning and accountability are concepts that are developed within justice, alongside society and of course by a government that promotes these principles. In this government term, we have proven that justice can be reformed”, Mr. Tsiaras noted and referred to the work that has been carried out regarding the digital strategy in justice.
“We are completing the second phase of the integrated system for the management of political and criminal cases, the information system of the Court of Auditors. We have integrated new applications. Transcripts of criminal court records. The intangible divorce, the electronic boards, are applications that show how justice has made leaps in the field of digitization”.
Continuing, Mr. Tsiaras referred to the legislative work that has been produced in the last three years at the Ministry of Justice.
“We modernized the set of codes that exist in justice, trying to achieve results in those areas, where it seems to society that justice is lagging behind.
With the code of criminal procedure, we made sure to speed up civil justice through the establishment of the pilot trial at the Supreme Court. We consolidated the provisions of the Court of Auditors scattered in a hundred bills into a single legal text. We passed the new code of judicial officers, we changed the code of organization of courts and the status of judicial officers which is to be reformed since 1989. We introduced the special departments in the major courts of the country, where they hear cases of a development nature as a priority, related to energy, telecommunications and to personal data. We introduced the Department of Statistics to the Ministry of Justice. We legislated for the first time a workable law on mediation. We recently legislated the institution of judicial police”.
Concluding, the Minister of Justice emphasized that the problem is not the number of judges, but the number of judicial officers, and indicated that a direction was recommended to the National School of Judges, on how to select judicial officers.
“The direction of the Ministry of Justice, is how we will slowly change a culture, which will help the evolution of the judicial system and the treatment of the pathologies, as they are recorded by society and citizens”, concluded Mr. Tsiaras.
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