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Chile's Judicial Branch receives support from Chile for the implementation of the law on the use of digital media   

Chile's Judicial Branch receives support from Chile for the implementation of the law on the use of digital media   

Within the framework of cooperation relations between the Dominican and Chilean Judiciary, a technical and inter-institutional agenda was exhausted with judges, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Public Defense, judicial technicians and other members of the legal community, in order to take advantage of best practices in digital judicial processing and other digital mechanisms of judicial cooperation... Read More

New Director of the National School of the Judiciary appointed  

The Judicial Power Council (CPJ) appointed Ángel Brito Pujols and Ellys Coronado Pérez as director and deputy director of the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ), respectively, in its ordinary session number 24-2023. The Council made the appointment after obtaining the results of the internal and external public competition held for the positions of director and deputy director of the ... Read More

Spanish expert argues that legal communication must strike a balance between explanation and technicality 

As part of the efforts made by the different judicial systems to ensure that the sentences issued by their courts reach the population in clear language, the Dominican Judicial Branch organized several academic conferences with the Spanish expert Cristina Carretero González, who stated that when it comes to legal communication, a clear language must be used in order for the sentences issued by the courts to ... Read more

Henry Molina completes work agenda in New York with presidents of Supreme Courts of several countries 

During the meetings, the president of the SCJ invited his counterparts to participate in the World Congress of Law to be held in the Dominican Republic in 2025 NEW YORK - The president of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) and of the Judicial Council, Henry Molina, held a working agenda with his counterparts at the ... Read More

Judges of the Criminal Chamber of the SCJ exchange best practices on admission of cassation appeals with their peers of the Spanish Supreme Court 

MADRID, Spain - The judges of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) of the Dominican Republic met with their counterparts from the Supreme Court of Spain and members of the General Council of the Judiciary of that nation for the purpose of exchanging best practices on the admission of cases to the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic... Read More

SCJ establishes evidentiary value attributable to photocopies can help build the judge's conviction 

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) endorsed the criterion that, although photocopies do not constitute reliable evidence, it is no less true that their content can help the judge to build his conviction, if the weighting of these is corroborated by other circumstances and elements that have been used by the judge as evidence of the ... Read More

SCJ Judge reports close to 4 thousand cases were resolved through non-adversarial dispute resolution mechanisms  

The Dominican Judiciary is working on the process of modifying the General Regulations on Non-Adversarial Dispute Mechanisms, a method by which 3,948 cases will be heard during the year 2022. In this regard, the magistrate Samuel Arias Arzeno, judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), an expert in the field of ... Read More

Poder Judicial realiza jornadas de intercambio y capacitación a jueces, así como a la comunidad jurídica sobre ley y reglamento que habilitan el uso de los medios digitales 

En el marco de la estrategia de aplicación de la Ley de Uso de Medios Digitales en el Poder Judicial ha sido agotado exitosamente un amplio itinerario con el desarrollo de una agenda de trabajo que representa la expresión clara y decidida de la consolidación del proceso de transformación digital, en aras de una justicia … Leer más