How to cure French justice of its ills?

In France magistrates lawyers and clerks are mobilizing against a

In France, for months, even years, the world of justice has denounced unworthy working conditions, a loss of sense of the profession, an abyssal delay in the means allocated. In an attempt to respond to this, the Minister of Justice unveiled his action plan this morning.

Among the most emblematic measures: the increase in the justice budget, recruitment protected by law, halving the processing time for civil proceedings. Can that be enough? How to cure French justice of its ills?

To discuss it :

– Vincent Brengarth, lawyer at the Paris Bar, author of the column Justice needs to be re-humanized published in Liberation on January 3, 2023, author of the book Claim the right to disobedience (Fayard, 2021) and co-author with William Bourdon of the book Police violence: The duty to react (Tracts Gallimard, 2022)

– Thibaut Sprietnational secretary of the Syndicat de la Magistrature

– Cecile Vigorsociologist and political scientist, research director at the CNRS, specialist in the analysis of public policies and the sociology of justice and law at the Center Émile Durkheim, co-author of the books Justice reforms in Europe (De Boeck editions, 2018) and Justice under review (PUF editions, September 2022)

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