Italy’s justice system
loses some 750 million euro a year due to its backlog of cases, currently about
4,200. The justice system is clogged with pending cases, and no sign of a
solution is in sight. Germany, by comparison, has 2,500 pending cases, and
England has 1,289.
For its inefficiency,
according to the report ‘Doing Business 2009′, Italy placed 156th out of 181
countries ranked for the efficiency of their criminal justice and civil law
systems.
The top three spots in
the ranking went to Hong Kong, Luxemburg and Iceland respectively.
Italy’s justice system
ranked below those of Angola, Gabon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zamba, the Republic of
Congo, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau.
