"When we raise the issue of career separation, which is part of our programme, we hope to be able to address it with all parties without ideological prejudices: with the academy, the judiciary and with you," Nordio said in a video message to the Union of Criminal Chambers, which is celebrating the inauguration of the judicial year in Ferrara.
Nordio also said the government planned to amend the law on the statute of limitations which introduced the principle of not being able to proceed on cases which had timed out.
Nordio said recently that the government will consult the judiciary before pressing ahead with its planned reforms of the judicial system.
"Before being entrusted to the evaluations of the sovereign parliament, every future reform will be composed via listening to all of the voices of the justice system," he said at a ceremony for the opening of the judicial year, specifically mentioning lawyers and the judiciary.
Nordio has said the government is determined to make the regulations for the use of wiretaps by examining magistrates more strict, to stop the reputations of innocent people being damaged by recordings of private conversations appearing in the press.
He also wants to press ahead with plans to make the career paths of judges and prosecutors separate, a move long advocated by the centre right.
Magistrates union ANM and the centre-left opposition have characterised the plans as an umpteenth bid to try to put Italy's independent judiciary under some form of government control, a contention former prosecutor Nordio denies.
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