The Toulouse Court of Appeal still understaffed
According to the new president of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, Chantal Ferreira and the Attorney General Franck Rastoul, their remains undersized given the number of cases awaiting judgment.
At the Toulouse Court of Appeal, presidents follow one another and the shortage of magistrates does not improve. Arrival from Chambéry to replace Jacques Boullard, who has become president of the Paris Court of Appeal, Chantal Ferreira could not see the recurring lack of resources at her disposal.
“When you are in a jurisdiction like Toulouse, you quickly understand that the account is not there. There are 19 magistrates missing from the seat”, she declared during the solemn hearing at the start of the school year on Monday 16 January. According to the National Conference of First Presidents (CNPP), 12 magistrates would be needed for 100,000 inhabitants for the Court of Appeal to function properly. On this account, that of Toulouse should have 60 magistrates. In 2022, it only had 41, one more than in 2021. A meager reinforcement.
The shortage is the same on the side of the General Prosecutor’s Office, where ten magistrates worked last year, against nine in 2021. With 2.69 magistrates per 100,000 inhabitants, in a jurisdiction with 2.262 million inhabitants, the ratio remains – in 2022 as in 2021 – in December of the national average (three per 100,000).
A work surcharge
Faced with these insufficient numbers, some chambers of the Toulouse Court of Appeal found themselves overloaded with the mass of cases to be processed. This is the case for the chamber of . . .