The Plenary Coordinating Committee of the Greek Bar Associations in its announcement responds to yesterday’s Announcement of the President Supreme Court Ioanna Clapawhich has given the Bar Associations, which did not move on its own in the case of behavior shown by the Zoe Konstantopoulou to the judges of the MOEE headquarters Lamia who was tried in the case of Epaminondas Korkonea.
The coordinator states that in order to move the disciplinary procedure against Mrs Konstantopoulou must be preceded by submission disciplinary reference, as “there is no possibility of ex officio investigation” and “to date not even a simple report – report has not reached the competent disciplinary body of lawyers by the Lamia Court of Appeal”.
In the case of Volos, and the reference to the Protodian Volos Helen Betafor the “heavy and repeated offensive behavior” of the same lawyer, cited by Ms. Clapa in her announcement yesterday, the Steering Committee notes that in this case “the” immediately moved immediately moved by the immediately. Disciplinary procedurehowever, the secrecy that governs it does not allow us to publicize further details of the case. “
In particular, the announcement of the Coordination Committee is as follows: “The Plenary Coordination Committee of the Bar Associations of Greece, which met today 21.6.2025, on the occasion of the Supreme Court’s announcement dated 20.6.2025, issued the following announcement:
1. The President of the Supreme Court would expect to know, as President of the Supreme Disciplinary Council of Lawyers, that, in the event of any disciplinary offenses of lawyers before court, there is no possibility of existing investigation but a prerequisite for the proceedings and a prerequisite for the proceedings of the 336) and the Code of Lawyers (Article 155), is the prior submission of disciplinary reference, non -appeal of knowledge in any other way. To date, not even a simple report – report has not come to the competent disciplinary body of the lawyers by the Lamia Court of Appeal.
2. We are particularly impressed by the fact that the President of the Supreme Court just days before her retirement, instead of dealing with the critical assessment of the functioning of justice on her term of office, she intervenes in the public dialogue that has been developed between the Coordinating Committee and the Coordinating Committee with their converging and divergent positions on this matter.
Obviously, it has been particularly disturbed by the interventions of our institutions for both the protection of the rule of law and the bad texts in the functioning of Greek justice.
3. The Coordination Committee, with the aforementioned announcement dated 12.6.2025, called on the Association of Judges and Prosecutors, the largest trade union organization of the judges and prosecutors of the country, to be placed for auditors of disciplinary officers and not in order to carry out their disciplinary officers.
The President of the CA should clearly be aware that in those cases who were reported to us such behaviors of judicial officers against lawyers, we have addressed the lawful actions for this law.
4. As to the mentioned reference to the Protodian Volos by a lawyer, we inform that the prescribed disciplinary procedure has been immediately initiated, but the secrecy that governs it, does not allow us to publicize further details of the case, which is not done by the President of the AP, in the public. Disciplinary jurisdiction, because of its seriousness, is obviously not to be part of communication management rationales.
We are pleased, however, that in this case, the President of the CA limits its interest in the functioning of lawyers’ disciplinary bodies and does not deal with the course of the criminal proceedings in the same case.
5. The Bar Brigade does not expect the suggestions of the President of the CA for safeguarding the lawyer’s dignity and the defendance of the prestige of the law firm. After all, he does it responsibly and timelessly. “