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The Judicial Branch Commission is working on the validation of the projects to be analyzed at the XXI Ibero-American Judicial Summit. 

The Judicial Branch Commission is working on the validation of the projects to be analyzed at the XXI Ibero-American Judicial Summit. 

A commission of the Dominican Judiciary participates in the second preparatory meeting of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit (CJI), which takes place in Bolivia, with the aim of validating the projects developed by the working groups to be presented at the Plenary Assembly of the XXI edition, which has as its motto: "For a judicial career ... Read more

Dominican Judicial Branch takes advantage of Spanish experience in the modernization of justice from a citizen's perspective 

With the aim of showing the Spanish experience in the modernization of judicial services from the citizen's experience, the general administration of the Judicial Service in the framework of the Twinning project with the European Union, organized the visit to the country of the general director of Digital Transformation of the Administration of Justice of the European ... Read more

Students from seven universities propose initiatives to help solve justice challenges  

Students from different universities in the country participated in the "Hackatón Justicia al Día 2023", organized by the Laboratory of Innovation for Justice of the National School of the Judiciary (LabENJ), with the purpose of solving real problems of the Dominican justice system and fostering new skills in the participants. In this alliance between LabENJ and the Dominican ... Read More

Councilor sustains Judicial Branch promotes gender equality in all its proceedings 

Counselor Bionni Zayas Ledesma said that the Dominican Judicial Branch promotes gender equality in all its actions at the national level as a key player in the establishment and implementation of national and international laws and regulations that bind it. The counselor said this during the annual meeting for the "Strengthening of the Judiciary and the ... Read more

Supreme Court of Justice publishes the main decisions of the first four months of 2023 

The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) published the compilation of the main decisions issued during the first four months of the year 2023, which establish jurisprudence of interest to legal professionals and scholars, as well as to the legal community in general. The compilation corresponding to the months of January through April includes 28 decisions issued during the ... Read More

Presidents of Supreme Courts promote innovation and improvements in the region's justice system  

The agreements are contained in the Declaration of Santo Domingo signed by the representatives of the Judiciaries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic The presidents of the Supreme Courts of Justice who participated in the Regular Meeting of the Central American and Caribbean Judicial Council (CJCC) ... Read More

Dominican Judicial Branch to preside over the Central American and Caribbean Judicial Council 

Judge Henry Molina pledged to work tirelessly with the other countries that make up the CJCC to achieve common goals and move forward on the road to a more efficient, reliable, open, digital, accessible justice with special attention to vulnerable people. On Tuesday, June 13, the Dominican Judicial Branch assumed the ... Read More

Appeals court judge says judges must play active role in gender perspective 

Magistrate Sarah Veras Almánzar, judge of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of Santo Domingo, said that judges have an active role as managers of the change of their decisions in gender perspectives free of stereotypes. Participating in the panel "Conceptual and legal framework applied to cases of sexual violence", she said that judges have an active role as managers of the change of their decisions in gender perspectives free of stereotypes.

Colonel Jimenez Cruceta is appointed to the Central Directorate of the Judicial Protection Police. 

Colonel Ana Josefina Jimenez Cruceta was sworn in this Saturday in the Central Directorate of the Judicial Protection Police, whose designation was ratified by the Judicial Power Council through act number 16-2023. Colonel Jimenez Cruceta was sworn in by the deputy director general of the National Police, Brigadier General Julio Cesar Betances Hernandez, ... Read more