Lisbon, 22-23 May 2025
The High Inspector of Justice mr. Artur Metani participated in the proceedings of the General Assembly of RESIJ, the (European Network of Justice Inspection Services), where HIJ is a member.
The event was hosted by the High Council for Judiciary of Portugal with the presence of the inspection services of the RESIJ member countries, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Albania and Moldova, which has held observer status in this network since last year.
The Assembly discussed internal matters of amendments to the RESIJ statute, the identification of procedural measures to facilitate effective changes, on the level of authority of representation of each member country in order to have transparency and institutional coherence.
The Assembly elected the new President of RESIJ, upon the termination of the mandate of Romania. The candidate from France, Mr. Stephane Noël, Chief of the French Inspectorate of Justice, was elected with the unanimous votes of all members.
France, which is the founder of the RESIJ Network, takes over the Presidency for the second time.
The discussions of the members during the Assembly also focused on the concrete expectations of each of them for the future, as well as the cooperation with European institutions for the sharing of experiences and expertise, in order to increase the efficiency of justice, being compatible at all times with the guidelines of the European Union.
The Portuguese inspection services of the Prosecution Office, the Administrative Courts, the judicial assistants and the Ministry of Justice, were also invited to this meeting where they made presentations on their work functions for monitoring the justice system in Portugal.
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Within the framework of the General Assembly of RESIJ, the High Council for Judiciary of Portugal organized the conference titled “Communicating Justice”, which was held in the plenary hall of the Supreme Court in Lisbon. During his welcome speech, the Vice-President of the High Council for the Judiciary, Magistrate Luiz Azevedo Mendes highlighted the fact that the communication of justice must contain clarity and simplicity because the understanding of decisions is linked to public trust in the system and justice and RESIJ has its own topic of discussion.
The topics of the conference addressed the role of judicial inspection in promoting clarity and transparency of judicial decisions; argumentation, language and communication in judicial decisions; communication justice in the media context; data protection, anonymization of judicial decisions; artificial intelligence and the public interest in freedom of expression and information; new challenges and advantages in the use of technology and artificial intelligence tools in drafting decisions and conducting judicial inspections.
