The President of the Republic, Luis Abinader Corona, enacted the Law for the Use of Digital Media in the Judiciary. This law marks a milestone in the judicial history of the Dominican Republic for being the first time that the Supreme Court of Justice makes use of its legislative initiative provided for in the Constitution of the Dominican Republic... Read more

The President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Judicial Council, Luis Henry Molina Peña, received on Wednesday, July 27, the visit of members of the board of directors of the Dominican Bar Association (DBA) and judges of the Judicial Department of New York. The purpose of the meeting was to talk about the ... Read More

The Gender Commission of the Judiciary participates in a conference on the UN statistical framework for measuring femicides Judge Vanessa Acosta, judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and deputy coordinator of the Commission for Gender Equality of the Judiciary, deplored the alarming increase in episodes of femicide in the country, which ... Read More

The Judicial Power Council, in its ordinary session No. 20-2022 dated July 5, 2022, approved the update of the Judicial Scale, as established in Article 14 of Resolution 001-2021, which establishes the Regulation that organizes the Judicial Scale System and the System for the Provision of Judicial Positions. ... Read more

The Judicial Branch welcomes the approval in second reading by the Senate of the Dominican Republic, of the draft Law on the Use of Digital Media in the Judicial Branch, submitted by the Supreme Court of Justice. The law, which must be forwarded to the Executive Branch for its enactment, was approved last June ... Read More

The international expert in justice and journalism, Isabel Duelo Van Deusen offered this Friday in the city of Santiago the workshop Justice, Media and Community, an activity that is part of the process of developing the Communication Policy of the Judiciary. The meeting was attended by judges from the different jurisdictions and the media, as well as ... Read more

The Judicial Power imparted the workshop "Criminal Process, prisoners and media," with the participation of journalists and opinion leaders, whose main objective is to facilitate the effective journalistic coverage of judicial issues and that the information and analysis reach the public in a plain and understandable language. The facilitators of the ... Read more

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Luis Henry Molina Peña and representatives of the Judiciary, participated in the Plenary Assembly of the Dominican Episcopal Conference number 60, in which they presented to the bishops the Program for the Optimization of the Criminal Process and the plan of urgent measures for persons deprived of liberty ... Read More

Judges Sarah Veras and Natividad Ramona Santos, judges of the second and third chambers of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santo Domingo, respectively, participated in the First Regional Congress of Forensic Services: "Forensic Sciences, a contribution to the challenges of criminality", held in Panama City, Panama, in ... Read more