the bill for reform of the legal profession approved in September by the Council of Ministers, and now being scrutinized by Parliament, “the process will definitely arrive” at the end of the legislative process. This was assured by Senate President Ignazio La Russa, speaking on Friday 14 November at the 28th Aiga Young Lawyers Congress, explaining that a “de facto single chamber system” would allow the bill to pass quickly through the Senate once approved by the Chamber.
Career separation
Meanwhile, young lawyers are supportive judicial reform with eleven people saying “yes”. On the day of the end of the two-year non-renewable term of the Aiga presidency, Carlo Foglieni, from the stage in Bergamo he shared with the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana and the president of the commission of inquiry into the waste trade Jacopo Morrone, did not shy away from the ritual questions that will be the mantra of the coming months. «Our reasons, however, are technical and oriented to the functioning of the judicial machinery – says Foglieni -. We are the first to want and demand an authoritative and independent judiciary, the characteristics of which are not threatened by these reforms.”
In contrast, a few hours earlier and from the same stage, was Cesare Parodi, president of the ANM that had been designated as a “no” referendum committee. “Problems in the field of justice do exist, but they are very different from the problems that this reform seeks to address – said the judge -. That absolute necessity public prosecutor interpreting one’s role according to due process principles must be pursued not by separating careers but by implementing them correctly Cartabian reforms valid for two years. In my opinion, the Nordio reform is not working: its principles are abstract, while we should deal with criminal law concretely.”
However, in conditions like these, Attilio Fontana underlined, «avoiding conflict with the judiciary is difficult considering the very tough initiatives of the ANM. I hope the dialogue will become civil again and we will talk seriously. We must free ourselves from belonging to one party or another because this is only the beginning of the necessary reforms: in all countries where they exist accusation ritual – here since 1989 – there has been a separation of careers. Nothing will happen, in fact it will be better than before.”
For Patrizia Corona, vice president of the National Forensic Council, “the statistics on the results of the verdict show a large number liberation during the trial and this fact raises serious questions regarding the proper functioning of the system. However, there is a lack of structured data regarding the relationship between prosecutors and judges for preliminary investigations, precisely at the most complicated stage, namely the research stage.from the test: think, for example, of requests for authorization for wiretapping, of which we don’t know how many were rejected compared to those requests”.
