Persistent delays in trials frustrate senior judge

[Illustration: Vangelis Mantzavinos]

Delays successful trials caused by repeated postponements, the bane of the Greek justness system, person been constricted successful some cases, but not successful transgression trials, where the signifier persists.

This resulted successful the president of the Supreme Court, Anastasia Papadopoulou, to tell her chap judges astatine a meeting: “Let us each spell to the Ministry of Justice and inquire them to destruct postponements successful transgression and civilian trials… A national can’t travel 5 and 10 times successful the tribunal to spot his lawsuit tried.”

Postponements are demanded by lawyers but are granted by judges. And nary information are kept arsenic to the fig of cases postponed.

But a cursory look connected a single day, October 7, showed implicit fractional of cases to beryllium tried successful misdemeanor courts were postponed.

Furthermore, successful a tribunal proceeding of cases of nonpayment of wages, each 23 of them were postponed for various reasons.