A number of civil society organizations made a repeated public call to the Supreme Council of Magistrates, asking it to investigate the random case distribution method in the courts of law. In February, the signatories made a similar call following signals of manipulation in the system, IPN reports.
The civil society representatives said that it is four months since the first call, but the Council published no information about the carried out inspections, the identified vulnerabilities and measures taken. Since this May, the courts regularly publish reports on the random distribution of cases, including in 2014, on their websites. The published reports reveal that only 10% of the cases in some months of last year were assigned at random.
The signatories reiterate the requests included in the first public call and repeatedly ask the Supreme Council of Magistrates to immediately perform detailed inspections to see how the court cases are distributed, to harshly punish disciplinarily the persons involved in the manipulation of the case assignment system and to post the inspection results on its website as soon as possible.
The call was signed by Amnesty International Moldova, Promo-LEX, the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT), the Association for Efficient and Responsible Governance (AGER), the Association of Independent Press, the Independent Analytical Center “Expert Grup” and others.
