The Csm tries again: new call for applications to recruit 342 remote judges

The Csm is trying again and is attempting to relaunch forthe remote application of 500 magistrates with the aim of trying to come closer to the target of a 40% reduction in the duration ofcivil disputes by next June as agreed in the Pnrr.

Noting the insufficiency of the toughe who declared themselves available, in the end only 165 were eligible, after the first call for applications, at the proposal of the Seventh Commission, the Plenum approved a second call for applications with greater focus on areas of specialisation, moreover with the same incentives, for the allocation of 342 magistrates in extraordinary remote application in the offices with the most critical issues from the point of view of achieving the Pnrr objectives.

The deadline for submitting declarations of availability is set from 23 October 2025 to 3 November 2025. The heads of the offices that will benefit from the applications must transmit within the same time limit to the Council the number of cases ripe for decision to be assigned to the applied magistrates and the relevant matters.

Also approved was a resolution entrusting tojustices of the peace, serving as confirmed honorary judges of the court, the handling of monocratic proceedings in matters of certification of the status of Italian citizenship. An exception, until 30 June next year, also introduced to ensure the achievement of the NRP objectives, justified by the lower specialisation of litigation on this point.

On the first measure, however, the Council was divided. Area in fact highlighted the "therapeutic obstinacy" of the new interpellation, at the same time considered useless and not harmless. Useless, because, if the measure, for Area, could be justified in a broader context, which forced general principles of the system in the emergency perspective, "once this perspective has disappeared, due to the renunciation of the most significant part of the interventions, there is no reason to persevere in applications that sacrifice orality, territoriality, predetermination of the judge, without such a cost being counterbalanced by a concrete possibility of affecting the achievement of the target".