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Lawyer Redi Ramaj, speaking about the Justice Reform, stated that it has revealed several problems, which, according to him, must be intervened to fix.
In an interview with “Të Pashoq” on Pamflet’s YouTube channel, Ramaj said that the mass removal of magistrates through the vetting process, without a clear plan for their replacement, has created a deep vacuum in the system. He listed several other defects that need to be fixed, but stressed that the political will to correct these defects seems weak.
On the contrary, he added, there is a tendency to "stop" or "mitigate" the impact of the reform, especially on political figures, instead of taking concrete steps to improve and fully functionalize the justice system.
Excerpts from the studio conversation:
– Do you think that we need to intervene once again in the justice reform?
Ramaj : Look, after a while, normally, like any reform, there may be a need for intervention. But this reform had some defects that should have been addressed earlier, or the way it was implemented could have been different. The removal of more than half, or about 60%, of all magistrates from vetting brought about a collapse of normal courts.
So, it should have been done differently. Should they have been removed, we can discuss, but the way it was done, without replacing them with new judges, has created problems. Today, the Magistrates' School is unable to fill the number of magistrates, whether for prosecutors or judges, throughout the system, and we have very large vacancies. No alternative or other formula was found to introduce experienced professionals, such as lawyers or other professionals who have held high-ranking positions, to enter the system as judges.
So, only the Magistrates' School has been left hostage, at a time when to be a judge of the Supreme Court or the Constitutional Court, it is not necessary to have been a judge or to have graduated from the Magistrates' School. You can only have gone through experience as a lawyer, advocate, law lecturer, or other fields related to justice.
These, I think, need to be repaired; there may be a need for change. I don't know if there is any political will now to touch reform or to make interventions that only improve it. I see that the political will now is more to stop reform or to take actions that mitigate the pressure that reform has on politics.
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