Judge Monica Claudia Cipario of the Bucharest Court was expelled from the judicial system after accumulating more than 450 decisions, the oldest of which was seven years old. This is the second expulsion decision by the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) in the judge’s case, the first since 2015 when she appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which accepted her appeal and decided to cut her salary for one year.

The decision to remove Monica Sipariu from the judicial corps, judge of the 1st Criminal Section of the Bucharest Court, was made on Wednesday by the Division of Judges in Disciplinary Cases of the High Council of Magistracy, which recognized the disciplinary action of the Judicial Inspectorate. . The disciplinary offense against which he is charged is “failure to sign court decisions or court documents by the prosecutor on the grounds provided by law, within the time limits provided by law” (Article 271, Clause 303 of the Law on the Status of Judges and Prosecutors). ).

The decision of the judicial section of the Supreme Court can be appealed. In addition, the judge challenged the CSM’s suspension from the judicial corps in 2015, when the Supreme Court upheld her appeal and decided to reduce her monthly allowance by 25% for one year. Also in December 2022, the Supreme Court decided to suspend the judge from her position for six months, but she again appealed this decision and won, and the ICCJ decided to reduce her salary for six months.

According to the Judicial Inspection, in a number of 457 cases, the judge would not give reasons for the decision/conclusion, which “resulted in depriving the parties of an essential element of informing the content of court decisions in terms of considerations necessary to evaluate the arguments necessary for the appeal, resulting in unjustified delay judicial procedure, which, at the same time, constitutes a violation of the provisions of Article 6 of the European Court. Conventions on human rights regarding the reasonable length of the process,” reports defapt.ro.

Defapt.ro journalists write that in 2022 Judge Chipariu received an annual salary of 205,846 lei, as well as 68,681 “salary rights”, not clearly defined. On average, a judge collected 22,500 lei (4,500 euros) per month