ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The judiciary is entrusted with a crucial task: to apply the law and protect the rights of the person. It is a complex activity that requires maturity, deep knowledge of legal sources, absolute impartiality in interpretation.” Thus the president of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, receiving the ordinary magistrates at the Quirinale in internship. “The application of the law does not allow mere automatism but represents the outcome of a due weighting and evaluation activity of which the magistrate, both judging and demanding, must be charged. The appeal of the judge to the law, moreover, requires the judiciary to identify the appropriate solution for each concrete case, always remaining strictly anchored to the complex of positive law “, he emphasized the head of the State.
“The answer of justice, as well as anchored to a wise normative reconstruction, must also be understandable. For this reason, Mattarella observed that “it is necessary, therefore, to have regard to the judicial elaboration of the Court of Cassation, which plays a fundamental role in the orientation of judicial decisions, both for judges and for prosecutors, also taking into account the pronunciations of the European Courts.”.
Therefore, “the guarantees of autonomy and independence of the judiciary are indisputable, precisely because they are functional to ensure that decisions are taken in accordance with law and not on the basis of external reasons due to conditioning, prejudice, influences or fear of retaliation or criticism. To make this irrelevant independence effective, the Constitution has chosen the model of the autonomous government of judiciary.”.
For the President of the Republic “who exercises jurisdiction has the duty to be impartial, to testify impartiality in any context, even non-functional, in order to prevent the behaviour of the individual from risking the confidence of citizens in the proper conduct of judicial activity. Moral rigour and high professionalism are the two elements that support the credibility of the judicial order.”.
Finally, wishing the new magistrates, Mattarella concluded by saying that “to address such a high task there will be useful, alongside the deep knowledge of law, the search for fair comparison, the refusal of every form of presumption, attitudes that lead to the precious qualities of humility and prudence of judgment. Dows that, in every area and at all times, has always been easier to praise rather than practice.”.
-Photo press office Quirinale-
(ITALPRESS).
