As the Minister of Justice this week presented his organic bill on the status of the judiciary, let’s take a look at how our popular culture describes and views judges.
In this song, there is undoubtedly something very shared among the French. It’s a venerable relic: a disc by Daniel Vangarde in 1975, before he was the successful producer of the groups Ottawan, Gibson Brothers or the Compagnie Créole. A vision of a judge who renders his decisions under the influence of a subjectivity that is dangerous for justice itself. No doubt we will hear this kind of argument in the debates on the draft organic law on the status of the judiciary, presented to the Council of Ministers this week in the Council of Ministers – we told you about it on France Info. Moreover, will this reform answer all the questions that litigants ask themselves before the courts?
In the episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this Sunday, you hear excerpts from:
Daniel Vangard, As the judge 1975
Gilbert Becaud, The convicted, 1961
Edith Piaf, It’s your fault 1950
Ringo, Judges, 1972
Edith Piaf, It’s your fault 1950
Ringo, Judges, 1972
Booba, Voicemail, 2006
113, The princes of the city, 1999
Funky Family, mystery and suspense, 2001
Maxime Le Forestier The Judge and his girlfriend, 2008
Julien Clerc, The Judge and his girlfriend, 2008
Julian Baer, judge a man, 1999
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