Can the defender of Swedish rights, called
ombudsman
, put up with the French temperament?
The question agitated French society in the fall of 1972, and particularly
Le Figaro,
before being translated into a law of January 3, 1973 establishing the Mediator of the Republic.
The law of March 29, 2011, will bring together under the authority of the Defender of Rights, his powers with those of the Defender of Children, the High Authority for the Fight against Discrimination and for Equality (Halde) and the National Commission for Ethics security (CNDS).
Against the "dictatorship" of the administrative power
As early as October 1971,
Le Figaro
echoed a speech by the president of the Union of Young Lawyers, who would like to see in “
the lawyer of tomorrow
” the equivalent of the
Swedish
ombudsman .
"
The fate of litigants is settled less and less in courtrooms and more and more in administrative offices,
" notes the newspaper
.
Thus are we slipping dangerously towards an autocracy, a power of decision without recourse that arrogates...
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