For the Anm, the current reform of the civil trial, under consideration by the Chamber, risks slowing down civil trials. «The modifications on the rite produce, with the interpretative difficulties linked to the transitory discipline, inevitable slowdowns, so that, where not essential and having a certain impact on the process, it would be preferable to pause and ponder them. If some of them deserve to be looked upon favorably, others could instead slow down the process ”. This was highlighted by the general secretary of the ANM Salvatore Casciaro, addressing, in his report to the central steering committee of the togas union, the issue of the reform of the civil process, already approved in the Senate and now awaiting the consideration of the Chamber.
Casciaro, in particular, recalled that the operators are “all in agreement in believing that the recipe for speeding up the times of civil trials is not so much contained in the stories of the rite, but perhaps, and more pragmatically, in the strengthening of resources, making them adequate to need for the public service, especially covering the staff of magistrates and administrative staff to the point of making them suitable for dealing with the huge amount of litigation. Without these essential interventions, it will be difficult to achieve the objectives required for access to the funds of the Next Generation EU “. The secretary of the ANM noted that the law on business crisis “has now authorized the calling of a competition for the recruitment of five hundred magistrates but this is an intervention unrelated to the timing of the Recovery, given that the winners of the competition to be banned, intended to partially fill the significant openings, will be put into service no earlier than 2025. And this while the objectives of drastic reduction of the times of civil trials must imperatively be achieved, with the resources now available, already by the end of 2024 and it would be unrealistic to think, under these conditions, that by revitalizing the structure of the Trial Office it is possible to achieve the historic objective of reducing the time of civil proceedings by 40%: this organizational effort should at least be accompanied by a serious project of revision of the organic plants and of the judicial districts ».
But even on the prescription the robes are not met. With the legislative decree on the presumption of innocence “questionable choices have been made. The communication with the press of the public prosecutors has become unreasonable, and they will only be able to use ‘official press releases’ and, in cases of particular public importance, ‘press conferences’. Rules that will not do a good service, this is the fear, to the need for correct information on what happens in the process during the very delicate phase of the investigations ». This was stated by the president of the ANM Giuseppe Santalucia, speaking to the Central Steering Committee of the togas union.