Members of the Judiciary shall be appointed by public competitive examination. The law on the organisation of the Judiciary may provide for the appointment or election of honorary members of the Judiciary for the discharge of all the duties entrusted to individual judges. The High Council of the Judiciary may, on account of outstanding merit, designate full professors of law and lawyers with at least fifteen years of practice and who are enlisted in the special registers for the higher courts, to serve as councillors of the Court of Cassation.
The Judiciary
Constitution of the Italian Republic
Article 106
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