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Courts near you are at risk of disruption mWednesday December 15. The signatories of the justice platform, two thirds of the judges and 1,500 clerks are mobilizing to protest against the overcrowding of cases which causes delays. In Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), the court is particularly affected.
The files are piling up, the deadlines are lengthening, penalizing the litigants and despairing the magistrates, exhausted. At the Nantes Courthouse (Loire-Atlantique), Thibaut Lepine, a family affairs judge, does a lot of hard work to mop up his pile of cases. But despite a formidable efficiency, he and his team are falling behind: “We cannot do more, we are at the maximum. You can’t help but experience it as a personal failure. We tell ourselves that the job we want to do, we did not do as well as it should have. “ And even bringing files home to work in the evening is not enough to make up for this delay.
Symbol of this embolism: a dedicated room where 230 cases sleep, ready to be judged. And these are serious issues: sexual assault, violence against minors, particularly complex scams … And for lack of magistrates, these files, opened in 2015, still do not have a trial date. Arnaud Baron, coordinating magistrate at theaudaciously, regrets having to make choices: “We are the arbiter of pain, it is something unbearable. “ Well aware of the problem, these heads of jurisdiction have made it a priority and are asking the state for additional magistrates. Without success.
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