According to ČTK, 32 women and 19 men are on the list of those proposed. Most of them are to go to the district of the Prague City Court and the Regional Court in Ostrava. The age of the candidates ranges from 30 to 41 years. Among them, the current assistants of judges predominate, of which there are 27. Judicial trainees have been proposed by the Minister 21. A lawyer, a company lawyer and an executor’s candidate should now also be able to judge.
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The current list of candidates, which includes 51 names, is larger than usual. Last year, President Zeman, on Benešová’s proposal, appointed a total of 76 new general court judges in three waves – in February, July and December.
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Last year, the Ministry of Justice announced that it would limit the appointment of judges. He justified this by the loss of new cases that the courts are dealing with. In this context, she mentioned the decline in crime or the conclusion of guilt and punishment agreements. Instead of 2818 table places, which was set for the courts of district and regional courts last year, it determined this year’s number of places to 2640.
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The planned number of judges of higher courts remained the same, ie 245. The presidents of regional courts expressed their disagreement with this systematization. The Ministry subsequently partially withdrew and is negotiating with the presidents of the courts to increase the number of judges individually according to the specific needs of individual courts.
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“We believe that it is more effective than increasing the number of judges across the board to strengthen judicial sections where the idea is not declining – such as administrative justice or guardianship, and to increase the number of assistant judges and senior court clerks,” ministry spokesman Vladimír Řepka told CTK. does not mean that we want to abolish existing positions in the systematisation. And the appointment of new judges is proof of that, “he added.
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