For her first trip to the field in 2020, Nicole Belloubet was jostled. The Minister of Justice went, this Wednesday morning, to Caen (Calvados) to visit the one-stop shop of the courthouse, resulting from the merger of the courts of first instance (TGI) and the district courts (TI) .
Arrived at the judicial city, the Keeper of the Seals had to go through a recessed entrance to avoid the lawyers and their cries of protest. The profession observes since Monday, and for one week, a movement of national strike to denounce the plan of reform of the pensions; as it stands, the text provides for the doubling of lawyers' contributions and the end of their autonomous fund, which made it possible to cope with the demography of the 70,000 representatives of the profession.
"I would like, rather than blocking the functioning of the courts, that they (the lawyers) can come to meet us to continue to dialogue," declared Tuesday evening the Keeper of the Seals on RMC-BFMTV. The Caen lawyers therefore came. But while Nicole Belloubet had to speak, those massed in front of her desk chose to remove their black dress to throw it on a pile at their feet, as shown in a video from Ouest-France.
The lawyers of the #Caen courthouse throw the robe before the speech of the Minister of Justice #NicoleBelloubet # greve8janvier pic.twitter.com/3QEQ3SoqgL
- Ouest-France 14 (@ OuestFrance14) January 8, 2020In a letter sent Monday to the president of the National Council of Bars (CNB), Nicole Belloubet recalls the "many exchanges" between her services and the representatives of lawyers, deploring that a "deep misunderstanding remains" on the reform project.
The Keeper of the Seals reiterates proposals intended to compensate for the increases in contributions and says that it is "certain that there are passageways to guarantee that the integration of lawyers into the universal system is carried out under the best possible conditions".
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According to Christiane Féral-Schuhl, president of the CNB, a meeting could take place next week at the Chancellery. "But I wonder what we are going to talk about," while the bill "is already in the Council of State," she commented.
