Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said
Thursday that the government will consult the judiciary before
pressing ahead with its planned reforms of the judicial system,
"Before being entrusted to the evaluations of the sovereign
parliament, every future reform will be composed via listening
to the all of the voices of the justice system," he said at the
ceremony for the opening of the judicial year, specifically
mentioning lawyers and the judiciary.
Nordio has said the government is determined to make the
regulations for the use of wiretaps by examining magistrates
stricter to stop the reputations of innocent people being
damaged by recordings of private conversations appearing in the
press.
He also wants to press ahead with plans to make the career paths
of judges and prosecutors separate.
Magistrates union ANM has characterised the plans as an
umpteenth bid to put Italy's independent judiciary under some
form of government control, a contention former prosecutor
Nordio denies.
On Thursday Nordio said that the "autonomy and independence of
the judiciary are a cornerstone of our democracy, guaranteed by
the Constitution.
"These essential principles accompanied me throughout my long
professional career as a prosecutor," he added.
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