Justice, Cartabia and Guerini: “We need reform of the military judiciary”

“The transformations that have affected the military judiciary are of epochal significance and therefore call for the need for reform intervention”. The warning came from the Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, who spoke at a conference of the National Association of Military Magistrates on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the 1981 law on the military judiciary of peace. Of the same opinion the holder of the Defense, Lorenzo Guerini, who said he was “convinced of the need, which can no longer be postponed, to adapt the structure of military jurisdiction to the current reality”. “Military magistrates have been waiting for a reform for many years, I do not want to enter into the merits, there are bills in Parliament – recalled Cartabia – I will give all my support to the request that comes to the policy of rationalization of competences and functions, in the perspective of modernization, to keep up with the changing times “. In the opinion of the Minister of Justice “if the context has changed with a lot of realism, it is necessary to change the competences, the functions, the relations with the ordinary jurisdiction. law and justice must compete with the path of history “. Guerini invoked a” rationalization “that” must be consistent with the need to ensure maximum certainty in the division between jurisdictions, as sanctioned by our Constitutional Charter, and must enhance the speed of the processes which, together with the particular specialization, have always been the qualifying features of military justice. These are the reasons why – he explained – I strongly wanted the establishment of a specific study commission for the reform of the penal code military of peace, formed by ordinary, administrative and military magistrates and by university professors. A valuable forum from which a qualified and constructive contribution can arise “.