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11:16 a.m. : The Minister of Justice announces the generalization of wearing pedestrian cameras for prison guards. “This equipment is likely to provide them with the security that is due to them, and to ease the tensions within the detention.”
11:04 am : The procedural code will also be rewritten. “It is not a question of overhauling the main principles”, promises the Minister of Justice, but “modernize” a procedural bible that has become, according to the report of the States General, “exceedingly complex (and) illegible”.
In particular, this will involve a “simplification of survey frameworks” in accordance with the wishes of the police.
11:01 a.m. : Another simplification announced by the Keeper of the Seals: the Minister of Justice announces the establishment of fixed fines in electronic version for all contraventions.
10:53 : To achieve this, the Minister wants to develop a culture of regulation at “amicable”. He called for a “true software change for civil justice” which represents 60% of judicial activity (divorce, employee-employer conflict, etc.).
10:48 : “My objective is that at the end of the five-year period, the timeframes for civil proceedings are on average halved”, promises the Minister.
10:49 : For “bring closer” Citizens of Justice, the Minister announces the creation of a smartphone application on which you will find the addresses of courts, lawyers, notaries. “From 2024, it will be possible for a victim to request compensation through this means or to form legal aid”.
10:43 am : The Minister also wishes “a more reactive organization of human resources”. Put another way, “in case of imperative need”reinforcements may be sent “very quickly in a troubled jurisdiction, in a short period of time.”
10:39 : Eric Dupond-Moretti promises a “zero paper” Ministry of Justice for 2027 : “This will go through a digital transformation plan.”
10:40 a.m. : “The means will allow, among other things, to upgrade the people of the ministry, to continue and finalize the plan for 150,000 prison places, to modernize and enlarge the courthouses and to recruit massively to strengthen the workforce.”
10:41 a.m. : Eric Dupond-Moretti confirms what franceinfo announced to you a little earlier in the morning. It undertakes to increase the Justice budget from 9.6 to 11 billion euros in 2027. “Thus, at the end of the two five-year terms, the Justice budget will have increased by almost 60%”.
10:27 : A few minutes late, Eric Dupond-Moretti began to present his action plan for justice. You can follow the Minister of Justice’s announcements live on video here.
09:23 : Announcements from the Keeper of the Seals start at 10 a.m. You can follow them live on video here.