The provision of automatic removal from the judiciary in the event of a magistrate's conviction to a non-suspended prison sentence is constitutionally illegitimate. This was decided by the Council which accepted a question raised by the Supreme Court.
A magistrate had been definitively sentenced to a non-suspended prison sentence of two years and four months for having affixed - with the consent of the president of the college - the apocryphal signature of the president herself in three jurisdictional measures. In application of the rule now declared unconstitutional, the CSM had 'disbarred' the magistrate who appealed to the Supreme Court.
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