21 FEBRUARY 2017
05 MARCH 2015
Judicial Warning concerning the ‘monster’ of multitude of laws
The unilateral preoccupation with the quantitative performance of the courts constitutes a dangerous diversion, notes the administrative tribunal by putting forward a series of proposals concerning the streamlining of the administrative law, the lifting of restrictions on the access of citizens in Justice and other relative problems.
In the presence of the Minister of Justice Nikos Paraskevopoulos as well, who mentioned the high morale and the altruism of the judicial functionaries and acknowledged the issues put under the microscope in the meetings with the field representatives, the speech of the head of the Administrative Tribunal Union Eirini Yannadaki caused a sensation.
Inter alia, the president of the Administrative Tribunal Union mentioned:
• The pendency of proceedings disease: By the end of 2014, 356.498 cases (67.678 tax cases) ‘stagnated’ in the Administrative Courts of First Instance and 47.593 (13.382 tax cases) in the Courts of Appeal. In the Court of First Instance in Athens, due to a memorandum obligation considering the designation of preference in the tax cases, cases of different nature are unfortunately pendent since 2009.
• The lack of staff and infrastructure: there are 395 vacancies in the judicial employee domain, i.e. there is a ratio of one court clerk to six judges.
• The ‘monster’ of multitude of laws: The last 30 months, six purely tax laws with 177 articles have been voted and 17 laws in which 71 new tax provisions were included. Fortheseprovisions, 111 ministerialdecisionsand 138 explanatorycircularswereissued. Two hundred fifty tax laws have been passed in Greece since 1975 (i.e. the last 40 years), when only 10 have been issued in the USA since 1775 (i.e. the last 250 years)!
Similar issues have been raised by the representatives of the Greek Prosecutors Union before the Minister in a recent meeting. They filed a brief with suggested solutions, such as profuse decriminalization of acts of lesser significance, reinforcement of the penal transaction institution, restriction on the abusive use of petitions to accelerate interrogations, expansion of the direct entry to the bench of felonies etc.
Judicial Warning concerning the ‘monster’ of multitude of laws
The unilateral preoccupation with the quantitative performance of the courts constitutes a dangerous diversion, notes the administrative tribunal by putting forward a series of proposals concerning the streamlining of the administrative law, the lifting of restrictions on the access of citizens in Justice and other relative problems.
In the presence of the Minister of Justice Nikos Paraskevopoulos as well, who mentioned the high morale and the altruism of the judicial functionaries and acknowledged the issues put under the microscope in the meetings with the field representatives, the speech of the head of the Administrative Tribunal Union Eirini Yannadaki caused a sensation.
Inter alia, the president of the Administrative Tribunal Union mentioned:
• The pendency of proceedings disease: By the end of 2014, 356.498 cases (67.678 tax cases) ‘stagnated’ in the Administrative Courts of First Instance and 47.593 (13.382 tax cases) in the Courts of Appeal. In the Court of First Instance in Athens, due to a memorandum obligation considering the designation of preference in the tax cases, cases of different nature are unfortunately pendent since 2009.
• The lack of staff and infrastructure: there are 395 vacancies in the judicial employee domain, i.e. there is a ratio of one court clerk to six judges.
• The ‘monster’ of multitude of laws: The last 30 months, six purely tax laws with 177 articles have been voted and 17 laws in which 71 new tax provisions were included. Fortheseprovisions, 111 ministerialdecisionsand 138 explanatorycircularswereissued. Two hundred fifty tax laws have been passed in Greece since 1975 (i.e. the last 40 years), when only 10 have been issued in the USA since 1775 (i.e. the last 250 years)!
Similar issues have been raised by the representatives of the Greek Prosecutors Union before the Minister in a recent meeting. They filed a brief with suggested solutions, such as profuse decriminalization of acts of lesser significance, reinforcement of the penal transaction institution, restriction on the abusive use of petitions to accelerate interrogations, expansion of the direct entry to the bench of felonies etc.
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