Internal complaint cases

During the reporting period, two complaints were filed against members of the public prosecutors' office at the Supreme Court.

The first complaint was filed on behalf of 38 interested parties and concerned the advisory opinion delivered by an Advocate General in the jointly handled cases of these interested parties. According to the Procurator General, the complaint referred mainly to the factual/legal content of the advisory opinion. The Procurator General held that there was no question of a complaint regarding conduct within the meaning of the Complaints Procedure of the Public Prosecutors' Office at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (hereinafter: the Internal Complaints Procedure). The Procurator General therefore declared the claim filed on behalf of the interested parties inadmissible. A complaint was then filed against the Procurator General on behalf of the interested parties with regard to this disposal. The deputy Procurator General declared this subsequent complaint partly inadmissible and otherwise manifestly ill-founded.

The second complaint was directed against the deputy Procurator General and concerned the handling of a complaint filed by the complainant under Article 13a of the Dutch Judiciary Organisation Act. The deputy Procurator General had written to the complainant that the complaint could not be heard because it concerned a judicial decision.

Finally, a decision was made by the Procurator General in 2025 regarding a complaint filed in 2024 against an Advocate General. The complaint concerned a conclusion that this Advocate General had made in the complainant's case and was that the Advocate General had behaved improperly towards the complainant by making certain statements in his conclusion about the complainant as a person and about his company. As mentioned in the previous annual report, the Procurator General charged an advisory committee for complaints with handling this complaint and rendering advice. The decision regarding this complaint followed in 2025. The Procurator General declared the complainant inadmissible in his complaint insofar as it concerned the qualification in the conclusion of the procedure as a "non-issue". The Procurator General declared the complaint to be unfounded for the rest, in line with the recommendations from the advisory committee for complaints.