Representatives of the Association of Judge’s Assistants today at a meeting with the rapporteurs of the Venice Commission – Society

This, as judicial assistants point out, de facto disempowers the highest judicial councils.

The Association of Judicial Assistants warns the public and international bodies that turning the Academy into the only “filter” for the selection of judges would mean taking away the constitutional powers of the judicial councils, according to the statement.

“Instead of the councils choosing the best based on expertise and integrity, they would be reduced to protocol bodies that only confirm the decisions of candidates pre-selected by the Academy. This directly weakens the independence and independence of the judiciary,” the Association points out.

Judge assistants point out that the imposition of an institution that is not completely independent from the executive power, as the absolute master of personnel policy in the judiciary, is an experiment that will cost citizens the most.

“Training must be a means of improving knowledge, and not an instrument to close the career path of judicial assistants who have been using the system for years. At the same time, this system would close the possibility of choice for other lawyers as well,” the announcement states.

The Association of Judicial Assistants demands that the judicial councils retain their full role in the selection of judges, without imposing other people’s personnel decisions, that judicial assistants remain an equal staff for selection to the judicial position, and that training is complementary to practice, and not a mechanism for excluding the most experienced.