Friday, November 21, 2008

Judges must be respected and listened to by politicians, advocates Cavaco

In a message read to the congress by the president of the Association of Judges, Antonio Martins, Cavaco Silva wrote: "In court, we must respect it."

"The judiciary should be respected and prestigious. The judges, it is important that the respect and dignity of their office requires, considered Cavaco Silva in the statement.

The President advised the government and parliament not to go ahead with legislative changes without taking into account the views of judges.

"The judges, as applicators of the law, should be listened to when changes are made deep in our legal system", explained the head of state.

The message of the President please the judges at a time when relations between the judiciary and political power were strained and where it did pass the message that the judges were lazy Portuguese, which resulted in the announcement of the reduction of the judicial vacations.

The chairman of the Association of Judges has left a message to the government, so there is a "serious political will of the executive power to create and provide the necessary material and human conditions for the justice system" as a whole, "can play the its role in achieving justice. "

Antonio Martins felt that justice is pale and that, if asked to people on the street what color paint the judges Portuguese, maybe the people of the black paint.

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