"The model adopted for the administrative courts shares some of the same drawbacks as the one that had been selected 8 years ago for the organisation and administration of ordinary courts", says the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (COE) in an opinion to be published on Monday 18 March.
According to COE constitutional law experts currently in plenary, in both cases the major problem is the "concentration of very extensive powers in the hands of a few stakeholders and there are...