The time taken to complete criminal
proceedings fell in 2023 over the previous year, putting Italy
on course to meet the targets set in its EU-funded post-Covid
national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP), the First
President of the Supreme Court of Cassation Margherita Cassano
said on Thursday at the inauguration of the Judicial Year.
"In the criminal courts, pending cases have decreased by 13% in
the courts of first instance and by 6.5% in the courts of
appeal," said Cassano.
"These figures are all the more significant considering the
increase in newly registered proceedings, equal to a total of
2,447,467 in 2023 compared to 2,413,467 in 2022 and 2,423,842 in
2021," she added.
Further, the number of completed proceedings has "increased by
8.3% at first instance and by 10.6% on appeal".
Likewise, she said disposition time, namely the time it takes to
resolve a case, "has fallen to 310 days in courts of first
instance, compared to 386 in the previous period, and to 689
days in courts of appeal, compared to 815 in the previous
period".
"It is therefore possible to formulate a prognosis of meeting
the targets set by the NRRP, equal to 282 days for first
instance courts and 601 days for appeal courts," concluded
Cassano.
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