Magistrates Corporate Court Brussels so dismayed about pension plans that they postpone the Belgian State files for an indefinite period of time (Brussels)
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The French -speaking corporate court of Brussels will refer all files in which the Belgian state or a public authority is the claimant to the role. This includes all bankruptcy files. In addition, the court will no longer cooperate in the judicial dissolution of companies. The spokesperson for the corporate court reports this on Friday evening. It is about protest against the decades -long under -financing of the judiciary and the plans of the federal government around the magistrate pensions.
According to the press magistrate, the judiciary is under -financed, and its budget is 1.4 billion euros, or 0.44 percent of all government spending. At the same time, a workload measurement in 2024 has shown that magistrates work on average 54 hours a week.
« According to that calculation, the French-speaking corporate court Brussels should have 17.5 magistrates instead of the current 14, » says press magistrate Pierre-Yves de Harven. « That situation occurs in just about all the courts of the country, while we have to work in unworthy circumstances, in court buildings that fall into ruins. For years, magistrates and justice staff have been asked to do more with fewer and fewer resources, and now the government announces that it will lower the Magistrat Pensions, without clarity. »
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The uncertainty, demotivation and the anger among the members of the judicial order is therefore particularly great, according to the press magistrate: “This is really not about preserving so -called privileges, this is about the defense of the rule of law, by the quality of the judiciary to be monitored. It will be completely impossible and experienced that the only one is on top of the already, makes somewhat attractive. ”
The corporate court will therefore refer all files in which the Belgian state or a public authority is the claimant, as, among other things, the bankruptcy claims, to the role. Also, the judicial dissolution of companies are no longer cooperating, and no more judgments are made about the payment of the rolling right of 165 euros, which must belong to the State.
« As long as the executive power continues to take measures that endanger the right of the citizen to a high -quality judicial authorities and a judicial decision within a reasonable period of time, and thereby continues to praise and suffocate a compressed judiciary, the corporate court reserves the right to take other measures, » it still sounds.
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