For trade tribunals TC a new map emerges

The reform of the judicial map will be gradual and spread over three years; 2008 will be the year of the implementation of the poles of the statement; in 2009, the reform will continue with the courts and the courts of commerce; "Finally, it will culminate in 2010 with the courts", to reassure Rachida Dati by meeting with elected officials and actors in the judicial world of the two regions of Normandy, then in Rouen Saturday morning. "We cannot continue to disseminate the means." In both courts of appeal of Rouen and Caen, 20 courts (TI) on 27 are that a single judge. Both have no magistrate. Fifteen TI account of 1 to 5 employees. "Eleven have an activity that does not justify the employment of a full-time judge," the Minister continued.

As of March 1, 2008, the Court of appeal of Rouen will thus have 3 poles of the statement: Rouen and Le Havre for the Seine-Maritime and Evreux for the Eure. In Basse-Normandie, 2 poles emerge in Caen and Coutances, in the English channel.

For the courts, activity on the two regions will be in 2009 focused on 15 it, instead of 27. In Haute-Normandie, 5 courts (TI) close. In the Eure, Evreux, Bernay, and Les Andelys are preserved, Pont-Audemer and Louviers closed and grouped respectively to Bernay Evreux. In Seine-Maritime, Rouen, Dieppe and Le Havre are maintained, Elbeuf and Yvetot closed and grouped in Rouen while Neufchtel is attached to Dieppe.

In Basse-Normandie, 8 it are closed. Calvados will have more than 3 courts (Caen, Lisieux and Vire), instead of six. Bayeux and Falaise will be closed and consolidated at Caen, Pont-L'Evque will merge with Lisieux. The Department of the channel retains also three six (Coutances, Cherbourg-Octeville and Avranches). The Mortain TI will be consolidated in Avranches, Valognes in Cherbourg and Saint-L in Coutances. In Orne, Falaise and Alenon are kept while a new it will be created in Flers; Domfront and Mortagne-au-Perche will be closed and consolidated respectively at Flers and Alenon. For trade tribunals (TC), a new map emerges. More, the upper Normandy will only count 5 TC, instead of 8. In Seine-Maritime, Rouen, Dieppe and Le Havre are maintained (Neufchtel and closed Elbeuf); in the Eure, Evreux, and Bernay are kept (Pont-Audemer closed). In Basse-Normandie, 5 TC are maintained: Caen and Lisieux in Calvados (Bayeux, Honfleur and Cond-sur-Noireau closed), Cherbourg and Coutances in the English channel and Alenon in Orne (closed Argentan). Finally, 2 high courts (GIT) will be closed in 2010: Bernay in Eure in Haute-Normandie and Avranches in the English channel in Basse-Normandie.

"It is a massive decline in the public service of justice." "It must be at the service of the population and not the contrary," immediately responded Laurent Fabius, Member of PS of Seine-Maritime, in the output of the ministerial meeting. "Do we focus not on structures but on rendered service." "There are a lot of political conservatism", stressed, for its part, Nicole Ameline, MP UMP of Calvados. Next month, a new map of labor councils, spared by the current reform, is expected.