Proposition 54K2402

Projet de loi concernant la coordination de l'expertise et l'accélération de la procédure relative à certaines formes de responsabilité sans faute.

General information ¶

Submitted by

MR Swedish coalition

Submission date

April 4, 2017

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

liability expert's report ordered by a court judicial proceedings damages

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

Groen CD&V Vooruit Ecolo LE PS | SP DéFI ∉ Open Vld N-VA LDD MR PVDA | PTB VB

Abstained from voting

PP

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Discussion ¶

May 18, 2017 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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The rapporteurs are Carine Van Cauter and Goedele Uyttersprot. They refer to the written report.

Mr. Minister, dear colleagues, a human and modern justice is, among other things, a justice listening to the justiciable. Our system and legal rules must therefore be constantly challenged to best meet the expectations of those facing them, whether occasionally or regularly. In this way, the confidence between the citizen and justice remains and will remain assured.

In this context, victims deserve constantly renewed attention throughout the judicial process. Therefore, I welcome the unanimous adoption of this bill within the framework of the Justice Committee.

Two provisions that I will ultimately call common sense will have a considerable impact on the persons concerned. On the one hand, in the event that no fault needs to be proved, it will no longer be necessary to wait for the closure of the criminal proceedings to proceed with the compensation of the injured persons. And so this principle of law, which we have probably learned, for those who have studied law, that the criminal keeps the civil in the state, here is simply adapted to the reality of our present society.

Another element of this project is to allow the designation of a coordinator expert simply to coordinate the work of the different experts and thus to act as a privileged interlocutor between the parties and the judge, but also to try, as far as possible, to reconcile the parties. This is also a simple practice of common sense. When the right goes to common sense, we can only rejoice. The right suddenly becomes readable, the right suddenly becomes acceptable, it becomes understandable also for all the persons who make up our society.

Mr. Minister, you understand, we will support this project. I thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I am extremely pleased with the unanimity of the committee, and I will not add big words. This project meets an urgent need; so I am very happy.