The hearing deadlines before the Lyon Court of Appeal are in the viewfinder of Lyon lawyers. This is the meaning of the motion voted on October 9 by the members of the council of the Order of Lyon bar.
The latter evoke “serious dysfunctions of civil and social justice“, denouncing precisely, “the extension of the deadlines for summons before the civil chambers, where the period which separates the declaration of appeal from the pleading hearing can reach up to four years. Same delays denounced concerning “appeals filed against industrial tribunal judgments, yet relating to economic dismissals supposed to be heard as a priority“, specifies the council of the Order.
“A denial of justice” denounced by Lyon lawyers
In his motion, he indicates that he cannot “acceptthe invariable response to the lack of material and human resourcess”, and “regrets that the changes to the appeal procedure have paradoxically led to the preparation being accelerated, but that the hearing and deliberation dates are still further away“.
However, according to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rightsopposed by Lyon lawyers, “Everyone has the right to have his or her case heard fairly, publicly and within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial tribunal“.
Presented as “the poor relation of budgetary arbitrations“, the justice civile is the subject, according to this motion “of a denial of justice“, due to this defective functioning of the justice service, and due to an abnormally long duration of the procedure.
The council of the Lyon Bar Association also asks Didier Migaudnew Keeper of the Seals “to take this into account in the discussion of the 2025 budget, which can no longer sacrifice civil justice in general, and social justice in particular“.
