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SCJ judge and prison authorities tour correctional and rehabilitation centers for women  

SCJ judge and prison authorities tour correctional and rehabilitation centers for women  

Judge María Garabito Ramírez, judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), together with authorities of the General Directorate of Penitentiary and Correctional Services, toured three women's rehabilitation centers, as part of the initiatives of the Program for the Optimization of the Criminal Process, whose purpose is to ensure that the women and men who are incarcerated are ... Read more

Judicial Branch participates in Meeting of the Ibero-American Commission on Quality of Justice 

The Judiciary of the Dominican Republic, in its role as Pro Tempore Secretariat of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit and as an observer country, participated in the plenary meeting of the Ibero-American Commission on Quality for Justice (CICAJ), held in Panama on October 17 and 18, 2024, with the participation of the ... Read more

Henry Molina: "the true meaning of justice is to build an environment in which all people can live with dignity and security". 

The presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Justice led the XXXIV hearing for the swearing-in of lawyers in honor of the prominent jurist and historian Wenceslao Vega, in which he highlighted his contributions to Dominican law The Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) on Thursday swore in a group of 458 new lawyers in honor of Wenceslao ... Read More

SCJ provides new reasons on the possibility of a dialogued relationship between the Supreme Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court

The ruling of the Third Chamber of that high court addresses the issue of the competence of municipalities in matters of land use The Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) established that the dialogue between the high courts is necessary due to multiple factors, one of them being the fact that ... Read More

Judicial Branch reaffirms commitment to open justice and citizen participation 

The Judicial Branch held the first forum of the Observatory, which analyzed the challenges of the justice system around transparency, accountability and citizen participation, reaffirming its commitment to the principles of open justice. The Observatory, created by the Judicial Branch of the Dominican Republic, is a forum for ... Read More

Judicial Branch and Open Government Partnership promote open and transparent Justice 

Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Molina and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Arias Arzeno met on Thursday with the CEO of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Sanjay Pradham, and the Director General of Ethics and Government Integrity, Sanjay Pradham, and the Director General of Ethics and Government Integrity, Samuel Arias Arzeno, to discuss the ... Read More

Judges and court employees have signed three million documents digitally, speeding up proceedings in 4 years 

A study by the Barna Management School highlights that the use of digital signatures in judicial processes has reduced the time it takes to sign a final document from 2,880 to 30 minutes in collegiate and unipersonal courts Some 3,000 judicial officials sign their documents electronically, of which 750 judges, both male and female; ... Read More

Judicial Branch participates in Colombia in a meeting on the challenges of the justice system 

Judge Martha Díaz Villafaña, president of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of San Francisco de Macorís, participated in the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Ordinary Jurisdiction of Colombia: the challenges of justice in the territories, in which she addressed the topic "Differential approaches: Gender violence, intersectionality, inclusion of women and men in the ... Read more