ACCESS TO JUSTICE: 3 YEARS AFTER THE REFORM OF THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

Abstract

These sections impose serious undertakings, not only on the partiesbut also on the Courts. It is therefore time, three years after the date whenthe reforms took effect, to ask ourselves: have we achieved this result?Furthermore, the legislator asked that a review of the reforms be carried outafter three years, and such a report has just been published.According to a series of articles that appeared in the newspaper LaPresse in January 2006, the reply seems to be clear and unfortunatelyrather sad: the reforms seem to be a failure as the public’s perception isthat the justice system is too slow and too expensive.