A second judicial site in Toulouse by 2040
It is a general observation, at the Palais de justice des allées Jules-Guesde, translated by Rachida Dati in 2008, we are “complete”. There is no room to accommodate other personnel. However, according to the accounts of the ministry, more than 110 additional jobs should be created to make the wheels of justice work in the pink city in the next 20 years. The Chancellery therefore recently approved the idea of a new site. Studies are in progress.
In the idea, the courthouse would be well and truly preserved, as would the Council of Prudhommes rue Déville near the rue des lois. On the other hand, the ministry is looking for a real estate solution to consolidate the old courthouse of avenue Camille Pujol, the social hub of the Boulevard des Minimes and the SAR which brings together the regional administrations located rue des Pénitents Blancs, near the place St-Georges. All this in correlation with the project of a regional archives center shared with the Agen Court of Appeal.
All avenues are being studied to find a building in town, or even to build a new one.
“We play in Ligue 1 with a National team budget!”
Because if the projections show 110 new posts to be created by 2040, the heads of court will continue to claim loud and clear that in terms of staff, the courts of Toulouse are struggling, both on the magistrates’ side, and officials side.
We are one of the two busiest jurisdictions in France. The workloads remain very heavy, and the delays are not acceptable for the litigants. – Jacques Boulard, first president of the Toulouse Court of Appeal
Fast turnaround times of two years in particular in the correctional appeals chamber (delinquency); for the files of the first civil chamber (construction, medical liability) and for the social security chamber which concerns a vulnerable public awaiting compensation. If the galloping demography in Haute-Garonne partly explains the explosion of legal cases to be processed, the judicialization of society is not foreign to it, as is the increasing complexity of the law. “Too many reforms slow down the process. The conclusions of the lawyers are constantly expanding, we can have 600 pages of conclusion in a construction file for example“, explains Jacques Boulard.
We must also conduct longer-term reflections, which the Attorney General calls “slow sugars“to echo the”fast sugars“, this thousand contract workers assigned to appeal to the Minister, Eric Dupond-Moretti Last year. Franck Rastoul recalls that if the European standard is 11 prosecutors per 100,000 inhabitants, it is 3 for the French national average, and 2.65 in Toulouse.
We are going very far. The efforts made in recent years, four creations of posts in the public prosecutor’s office and in the general public prosecutor’s office, are notable, but the deficit to be filled is still abysmal. You have to change gears. – Franck Rastoul, Attorney General at the Toulouse Court of Appeal
According to the accounts of the heads of court, there are 58 magistrates in Toulouse for the public ministry, it would take more than 240 if we followed European standards.