Justice will prove stronger than exam fraud
We continue to believe that judges perform their duties conscientiously, said Peter Callens on behalf of all lawyers.
Citizens are rightly shocked. The news about the examination fraud at the Supreme Judicial Council stirs everyone. That the leak of exam questions allegedly came from a senior magistrate at the public prosecutor's office in Ghent, and was intended for a trainee lawyer who is the son of two other magistrates, one judge and the other prosecutor: chills run down our spine.
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