Panta rei (Heraclitus)

"Panta rei" (Heraclitus)
A presentation.

Italy is the Sick Country of Europe. Now, while I am writing, in September 2014, Italy is in recession. When I wrote my first introduction to my blog, in april 2012, everything could be forecasted.

Anyway, as everybody knows, etymology of the word "crisis" is the ancient greek word κρίσις, which means "decision", so a moment of choice and changing and therefore of opportunities too.

This blog would like to give the point of view about this strange country of an operator in the world of law, which is not linked in any political party, any lay or religious organization, any other social oriented group, but which is a curious person, with many interests in history, economy, psychology, anthropology, religion, etc..

Above all, the Author is persuaded that to know the present is essential to know the past because, as stated the Italian historian Benedetto Croce, "history is always contemporary"

Any link about interests of the author will be posted, so that readers can operate further investigations if they are interested in some topic.


Monday, September 22, 2014

The last unuseful reform of civil justice in Italy

The last Italian justice system  reform (Decree-Law n. 132/2014) is yet another mockery of a government incompetent and ineffective. It will not help to reduce the backlog of lawsuite to be disposed, nor will short the time of the future ones.
The core of the law, that, to be clear, should help in the disposal of several lawsuits pending for a long time, provides that upon any stage and level of the procedure, the parties may apply to the arbitrators. But is it credible that parts of lawsuitehaving paid heavy taxes of Justice already, substantial attorneys' fees, should be happy to pay more money to go to a costly arbitration instead of the justice of the State, even if it does not work fast? Certainly not. It is more credible that theywill  prefer to keep on the began road. So, nothing will change.
The other articles of the Decree-Law, relating to the stage of the enforcement proceeding, and having the aim to make it more effective and faster will, also, be negligible in scope. In short, a futile reform, which certainly does not ensure justice faster or more reliable, or more effective.
Once again Government has lost a good opportunity to do one of those many reforms that could entice foreign companies to carry out productive investment in Italy.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Justice in Italy: reform attempts and impact on foreign investment

"Justice has collapsed." It 'a sentence now appellant in Italy for many years, from the institutional and political bodies and reported in the newspapers. This fact, absolutely objective, has never forced the parliament to serious reforms that can bring concrete results in the speeding up of civil and criminal proceedings.