how Europe let its courts decay

Breaking drainage in Brussels Landmark Palice de Justice, Lisbon Judicial clerk for years in London to hear London hearing in London. After the under funding for years in the judicial system across Europe, the continent has been jumping in its court crisis.

Over the past decade, as Europe has faced the economy of the Hatgolg, a camouflage epidemic and the influence of war, justice has been regularly targeted to spend regularly spending by the government, which has given priority to other parts of the public, such as healthcare and education.

The results are breaking the courts and crisis of officially funded lawyers, created record case backlogs and are reducing confidence in justice system in several countries. The problems have become so deadly that top lawyers have warned that they have threatened to undermine the rule of law, which include European organizations and inter -bound trade.

Europe’s slow-burning catastrophe suddenly, itching has taken a different form from the crisis Donald Trump has brought over US legal organizationsPushing the executive power to complete the judiciary’s complete denial.

Direct threat to the rule of law – Politicians from Spain to Hungary in court – also features in some parts of Europe. However, they are more lasting in the administration of most of the national court of this continent and sitting in addition to cripping problems and are not easy to solve.

One of the top four economies of the EU, a citizen or commercial first example in Italy, can take a year and a half to clear whether their general speed is operating. In France, Spain and Poland, it is less than one year on average for a routine case.

Criminal court backlogs have reached record heights in England and Wales in the UK, while countries, including Greece, Italy and Albania, are fighting to reduce the time to finish criminal cases.

In March, an accused in London was accused of threatening to a public match that his Three -day trials could not be taken until October 2028The His Honor Judge Charles Falc responded to “Wow” when his clerk told him the next available date.

Even more routine disputes are taking years to resolve.

According to Europe’s Council, it takes an average of 1,292 days on an average case of a case in Monaco to handle a deadline that has been steadily increasing since 2002 The latest report on the quality of justice in EuropeThe

In 46 member states In terms of World War II, the average budget allocated to the judicial system was 0.31 percent of GDP in 2022, in terms of World War II to protect the rule of law.

The cost is equal to 85 euros for residents and failed to keep pace with inflation for almost a decade. In 2018, the average budget of GDP was 0.33 percent.

Justice in a part of the fisheries Strade governments was less priority because all voters are concerned about clear services as health care, only in contact with some legal systems.

“It is not so sexy from the election point of view,” said Pierre-Dominic Shop, president of the Bars and Law Society of Europe. “Justice has been deprived of Europe.”

According to Mark Van Der Wood, president of the European Union General Court, justice has become difficult for many politicians in Europe even in recent years.

The rules of the law are “nothing that helps you win the election. In contrast, it is often a way to suppress nowadays”, Van Der Wood says.

However, it can be tempted to starve the funds for the governments, starving Europe’s legal installations are gradually concerned that they will regret it.

The UK’s Post Office Horizon IT scandal, where hundreds of postmasters were incorrectly convicted on the basis of defective computers, including theft, fraud and false accounting, could not spend direct expenses.

However, it was shown that British legal history is the largest in the history of justice, how the miscarriage of justice can achieve public imagination.

When the television drama finally came to the fore after the public attention was drawn to the public, the UK government decided Leave in court to handle itThe

The anxiety is that the more high profile scams will burst.

Chronic case backlogs, barriers and meladministration civic disputes also overwhelm civic disputes, such as coverting important fields such as housing, immigration and lifestyle for children.

In Cyprus, it takes about 800 days to solve the civic cases – the longest in Europe – and before any appeal, according to EU data of 2022, the most recent available. According to the Europe Council, Greece and Italy have a similar long deadline for clearing citizens and commercial cases respectively.

Legal technology expert Richard Saskind says governments have failed to recognize that “a legal problem is a health problem,” said legal technology expert Richard Saskind said.

Saskind said that ongoing disputes can be an “open wound”, it is similar to a physical wound. “You don’t listen to the government that we are not funding healthcare because we don’t think that open wound is important.”

The European Council’s Human Rights Director Claire Ove has mentioned the impact of the daily problem to the residents, who want to stop the neighbors only “throwing their garbage on your hedge”.

“If you have to wait for a long time to solve it, it may clearly enter your life,” he said.

Problems are more disappointing with the promise of technology. Successful digitization seems to be a large degree to exclude the judicial system.

“They digitize things and do not digitize things that they should digitize,” said Penalope Gibs, director of the Charity Transform Transform Transform of England and Wales.

Public access to the case document in the criminal case is “completely sad”, he added that some courtroom rules are “Draconian”.

Gibbs mentions audio recording ban in the English court, which is unexpected defendants – who fight to follow what being said – prevents transcript from receiving transcripts without delays or expenses.

According to corporate crime lawyer Philippo Ferry, the accused in Italy must also pay a single photocopy, which can add huge expenditure to a case.

“I have a crazy experience with the inefficiency of judicial offices,” he said. “For example, you have a systematic mandatory deadline but you cannot get the case documents related within the appropriate timeframe.”

Many executives “very expensive, very time -consuming, very fighting – and simply feel away from the place in a digital society,” Saskind said, who was the technical adviser to Lord Chief Justice, England, for 25 years.

“The systems are heavy process -based, inefficient bureaucrats,” he said. “This is a global event.” He also adds that “a massive legislature and regulatory change is required for basic change” is why the disadvantages in the legal system are especially challenging.

Nevertheless, several top lawyers have said that progress has been made. “No one can consider the resistance of change,” said Hugh Marerser KC, chairman of the Bar Council of the International Committee of England and Wales.

“It was very difficult to apply in the old days,” he said that he sued a party in the civic activities of England and Wales, he said. “Now you can hold them”, he added, not immediately and with the payment.

Further judicial authorities are using technology to listen to the cases, especially in the context of the Covid -19 epidemic, which forced the judges to feel more comfortable in practice.

Video hearing in countries, including the United Kingdom, has now become common in a way that has not been predicted before the epidemic.

A handful of European countries, including Denmark and Norway, also spread this trend, and in terms of the effectiveness and accessibility of their citizen and criminal judicial system, in terms Rules of the 2024 Law Index of the World Justice ProjectThe

Nevertheless, despite the increase in digitalization in the business and other parts of the government sector, “the use of digital equipment in justice is much lower than the rate of their availability”, the Council of Europe reports.

Until last year, the Vice-President of the European Commission, who was monitoring the rule of law, said in November, that it was more important to supply justice to the justice system so that they could maintain public confidence-no threat to democracy in many European countries.

“Justice is not a luxury,” Jourov said in his latest public presence as the Commissioner. “It’s something we need [like] Air and clean water. “

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