This afternoon, the immediately executive resolution of 10 May was sent to the Keeper of the Seals, Carlo Nordio, with which the Council of the Bar Association of Nola reports the serious malfunctions of the electronic system in the offices of the Justices of the Peace and requests at the same time, the urgent establishment of a technical table with all the operators of the justice sector of the Court of Nola.
The note, also sent to the CISIA Director of Naples, Giovanni Malesci, to the President of the Court of Appeal of Naples, Maria Rosaria Covelli, and to the President of the Court of Nola, Paola Del Giudice, highlights how the daily disservices, faults and technical inconveniences of the telematic system are affecting the regular conduct of judicial activity at the offices concerned in Nola, Acerra, Pomigliano d’Arco and Sant’Anastasia.
Below is the text of the resolution of the Nola Bar Council:
«Numerous communications have been received by this Council relating to the malfunctioning of the “PST” system at the offices of the Justices of the Peace in the Nola Court District, such as not to allow the regular conduct of the hearings.
This problem does not pertain to isolated episodes but has now become a daily constant which is illegitimately limiting the exercise of the legal profession and the right of defense of citizens.
It is now well known that the use of the telematic method in the offices of the Justices of the Peace of the District of the Court of Nola is not yet functional adequately and that, therefore, an exclusive telematic management of the carrying out of the proceedings cannot be envisaged. hearings.
The failure of the electronic system to function is not only causing significant damage to the legitimate rights of citizens but is leading to a further increase in backlogs of judicial procedures, given the continuous official postponements caused by the impossibility of using the PST and the absence of a solution alternative.
This also makes the spirit of the “Cartabia” reform completely useless considering that instead of speeding up the processes and the disposal of the arrears, a further delay is created in the holding of the hearings.
It is therefore essential and undeferrable to prepare an intervention plan and set up a technical table involving all the operators in the justice sector.
Given the above, the COA of Nola REQUESTS, considering it essential and non-deferrable, the preparation of an intervention plan and the establishment of a technical table involving all operators in the justice sector.
In the meantime, we request the issuance of a “provisional” provision that allows and authorizes the Justices of the Peace in the district of the Court of Nola to manage the hearings, through the use of paper minutes (temporary double track)”.
The case history of failures is truly varied and heterogeneous: ranging from hearing reports not found electronically or only partially uploaded, to witness statements not acquired due to slowdowns in the Internet connection, with the consequent need to reconvene the witnesses; from the uploading of documents and reports relating to other proceedings into the electronic file, to the impossibility of opening the same files, with consequent official postponements. In short, all those activities that – in theory – information technology, applied to the planet of justice, should have contributed to accelerating and streamlining and instead, due to infrastructural deficiencies, has become the cause of slowdowns if not downright devastating blockages.
Dr. Salvatore Esposito
