In Article 67 of the draft Budget Bill, the government has included a provision aimed at amending the method for calculating contractual pay rises for magistrates – or rather, at reinstating the method that was in force prior to the groundbreaking rulings by the Council of State

In its application to confirm the detention of the alleged "mastermind" behind the clashes in Milan, the public prosecutor’s office has not identified a single message ordering or inciting anyone to carry out violent acts, to attack anyone – in particular the police – to vandalise shops or to storm buildings

One billion, two Prime Ministerial Decrees and many contradictory claims. The judges’ association stumbles after releasing false figures on the backlog

Figures and lies: the incredible story of the €738 million error regarding judges’ back pay. The association admits to Il Foglio that there was a mistake in the accounts: “New pay scales coming soon”

There is no clear motive. However, the suspect’s profile does not match that of a typical hacker: investigators are seeking a legal expert well-versed in Italian debate and with access to the magistrate’s smartphone. It almost seems to be him

Politics cannot alter court rulings, but it could reinstate the method used to date for calculating magistrates’ salaries. Here’s how 

Reliable sources within the Ministry of Justice have told Il Foglio that the government’s intention is quite different from that expressed by Meloni on Sunday, when she announced that she did not wish to give the go-ahead to the Prime Ministerial Decree (DPCM) that would unlock pay rises and back pay for magistrates

Having already been definitively convicted of breaching official secrecy in December 2024, the Court of Cassation has now made Davigo’s conviction final in respect of the charges that had been referred back for a new appeal hearing. The former public prosecutor has been given a (suspended) sentence of one year and three months.

Members of the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) have called for an investigation to be launched to protect Santi Bologna, the investigating magistrate in Caltanissetta, who has been attacked by the former public prosecutor, now a senator for the Five Star Movement. But what is particularly telling is the silence of the National Magistrates’ Association, which has always been at the forefront when a magistrate is attacked by politicians. President Tango is keeping a low profile and remaining silent.

The Italian judiciary has gone to great lengths to reach a verdict, bending the rules of the trial in order to bring it to a conclusion. The result has been a thoroughly anomalous trial, featuring absent defendants (it is not known whether they are alive or dead), surreal testimony and a compromised right to a fair trial.