Things in the judicial system are not catastrophic, but do not stand very well and the international reports and the stopping of EU financing in the legal system confirm this. From what was reported recently, we can deduce that some of the moments should be put right so that we could reach an appropriate level in justice, former president of the Constitutional Court, the Superior Council of Magistracy and the Supreme Court of Justice Victor Pușcaș was quoted by IPN as saying in the talk show “Black box” on TV8 channel.
“I think we will never reach a catastrophic situation. The courts of law should not only administer justice, but should show that they really do justice,” stated Victor Pușcaș.
According to him, not only the judges do justice. “The Prosecutor’s Office, the lawyers, the prosecution bodies and the police also contribute to administering justice. Things do not stand well anywhere. The level of confidence in the judicial system is now the lowest ever and the population’s confidence started to decline in 2001,” noted the ex-president of the CC.
Chairman of the Legal Resources Center Vladislav Gribincea considers the judges in a country should do justice, not what they think the executive, the MPs, the police or the prosecutors would expect them to do. "I’m afraid there are not many cases in the Republic of Moldova when judges do justice regardless of what the politicians, prosecutors or other interested sides expect them to do. We are closer to a coma than to a proper life of justice,” he stated.
Vladislav Gribincea noted that if the judges do their job, the other players will have no chance to disturb the proper functioning of things in society. For example, the prosecutors cannot obtain unjustified convictions or arrests. “It‘s true that the public opinion and the general distrust in the state authorities affect trust in justice, but we cannot say that the fact that others work improperly generates a bad impression of justice,” he said.
In a recent report published by the United States Department of State, it is said that the official pressure on judges and corruption in the judiciary in Moldova continue.
