According to the first synthesis of the States General of Justice (EGJ), published this Thursday, the slowness of justice and the feeling of a lax and unequal justice are the elements most shared by the citizens participating in the debates.
“The citizens questioned share a particularly strong consensus around the slowness of justice. The feeling of a lax justice and an “unfair” justice (unfair, unequal) corresponds respectively to the 2nd and 3rd most shared consensus”, indicates this published summary. on the site parlejustice.fr.
“Lack of humanity”
The citizens are then distributed in a balanced way between those who defend a strengthening of the means of justice and those who share a concern for the simplification of justice with the objective of “more human justice and closer to the citizen”, notes the study. If professionalism and listening are the two qualities recognized by citizens who have experienced justice, the “lack of humanity” is ranked among the first grievances of those disappointed with justice.
To improve its functioning, citizens spontaneously favor the means, accessibility and better information and awareness of the functioning of justice, in particular through education. The summary also indicates that citizens are in solidarity with magistrates and agents on the theme of increasing resources and are particularly aware of the difficulties of the profession.
Over a million contributions
On the side of the magistrates and agents (clerks, etc.) it is the request for additional resources – “worthy” of a public service – which tops the list of concerns. Internal justice stakeholders also want to refocus on the core business of justice and improve the efficiency of the judicial system. At the organizational level, officials and magistrates mainly mention the need to assign non-jurisdictional tasks to dedicated staff, to refocus magistrates and court clerks on their jurisdictional function.
As of December 22, approximately 50,000 people have participated in the YEG. In total, more than one million individual or collective contributions have been submitted by these participants on the platform and analyzed, welcomed the Chancellery. Launched in mid-October, the EGJ should be completed at the end of February with the submission of a summary and proposals by an independent committee chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé, already coordinator of the report on pedocrime in the Catholic Church. The EGJ take place while the malaise is still strong among the magistrates who had mobilized en masse in mid-December to denounce their “suffering” and their “despair”.