Criminal law reduced to an election gimmick turns legislation into a seasonal trend. It emerges in the wake of public alarm, offers momentary reassurance, then wears thin. Amidst ‘meme laws’ and ‘necessary culprits’, it is legal certainty, safeguards and the very stability of the system that suffer

In her essay on the rape case at the Foro Italico in Palermo, Eugenia Nicolosi criticises the prevailing tendency of today’s media to rely solely on judicial accounts and, more generally, to go along too readily with dominant social conventions and beliefs. Without delving beneath the surface

The Rome Public Prosecutor sent a letter to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies an hour before the vote on the request for authorisation to access Delmastro’s chat records. The vote was postponed, amid criticism from the centre-right. Later that evening, the former undersecretary forwarded the messages to the public prosecutor’s office

From tomorrow, members of the Authorisations Committee will have access to the documentation sent to the Chamber by Rome’s public prosecutor Lo Voi, in a letter addressed to President Fontana regarding the case of the former Under-Secretary of State for Justice. President Dori (AVS): “The centre-right is against it, but I must protect everyone’s rights”

Regional Council President Dori has called an immediate meeting of the Bureau to discuss the letter from Rome’s Chief Public Prosecutor, Francesco Lo Voi, to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, regarding the use of chat messages between the former undersecretary and the restaurateur Caroccia. Costa (FI): “An unusual procedure”

The National Magistrates’ Association has decided to provide financial support for the appeal to the Regional Administrative Court lodged by a group of left-wing magistrates against the Higher School of the Judiciary, the presidency of which has passed into the hands of the ‘conservative’ Padalini after years of dominance by left-wing factions

“The acts of violence at the Chiomonte construction site constitute terrorism. The relevant prevention and enforcement measures must be applied,” says Andrea Padalino, a former public prosecutor in Turin. “The judiciary has shown itself to be too weak and ideological”

The ‘Report’-Lavitola scandal will at least serve to counter certain ‘investigative’ methods and the moralising with which people judge others’ dinners and social circles