The Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) does not respect the procedure for selecting and prompting judges, while the last changes and modernizations of the institutions are not carried out till the end. These are the conclusions formulated by experts of the Legal Resource Center in a monitoring report on the transparency and efficiency of the CSM, IPN reports.
“The legislative and executive bodies of the CSM didn’t perform their duties completely. The most important problem is related to the composition of the CSM. We do not yet know how Parliament selects rights holding professors. The procedure by which the judges are chosen is also not clear,” said Nadejda Hriptievschi, researcher and lawyer at the Legal Resource Center.
According to her, the newly created colleges at the CSM – the College for Selecting Judges and the College for Assessing the Performance of Judges – arouses questions. According to the Center’s specialists, an analysis of the opportunity of creating them would be useful.
Ion Guzun, project coordinator at the Legal Resource Center, said that the CSM does not provide explanations when it selects a candidate. “Under the provisions, until the summer of 2012, the CSM was to take 80% of the personnel of the National Justice Institute and 20% experienced people. But this ratio was never respected. The institute was never wanted. They prefer persons who worked in the field,” said the expert. According to him, most of the hearings of the courts of law should be recorded, not only in 15% of the courts, as practically all of them are equipped with the necessary devices.
The Center’s head Vladislav Gribincea spoke about the rude behavior of the judges during hearings. “This is disciplinary deviation and it is very hard to prove it. The audio recordings can help us in this respect,” he stated.
The report “Transparency and efficiency of the Supreme Council of Magistrates of Moldova: 2010-2012”, contains over 40 recommendations for the CSM.
