The Judicial Council (CPJ) awarded the first and second place winners at the national level of the XVII International Essay Contest on the Ibero-American Code of Judicial Ethics, under the theme: "Judges, new technologies and ethics".
At the ceremony, headed by Magistrate Henry Molina, President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Judicial Power Council, the first and second place winners were Magistrate Jorge Tomás Broun Isaac, member of the Collegiate Court of Peravia, and attorney Brianda María Trujillo Flores-Estrada.
It is worth noting that this is the sixth time that Judge Broun has won this version of the award on the occasion of the local essay contest.
Magistrate Molina emphasized that ethics plays a transcendental role in the Dominican Judicial Branch and that one of its fundamental axes is precisely integrity.
"The Council of the Judiciary has raised the need for us to have a very concrete line of action on the issue of integrity. In this sense, a programmatic plan has been conceived in order to strengthen such purposes, as axes of institutional sustainability with the consequent re-launching of the necessary strategies with respect to this issue", insisted the magistrate.
Magistrate Broun Isaac presented his research work "Emerging Technologies and Judicial Ethics", which deals with the impact of these technologies within the Dominican Judicial Power, in Latin America and the Caribbean; while Trujillo Flores analyzed the process of implementation of new technologies in the judicial system and its challenges, taking international systems as a reference.
Both participants defined the experience as very enriching in terms of international legal knowledge.
The main objective of the Essay Contest on Judicial Ethics is to promote ethics in judicial spaces, a quality that, in the daily work of judges, contributes to achieving excellence in the performance of their duties, strengthens the trust of citizens and helps social cohesion.
As part of the institutional protocol, the Judiciary Council sends the winning essays to the Executive Secretariat of the Ibero-American Commission on Judicial Ethics, in order to participate in the international phase together with the winning monographs in the other countries that belong to the Ibero-American Judicial Summit.
The ceremony of recognition to the winners of the award contest was attended by counselors Blas Fernández, Modesto Martínez Mejía, Bionni Zayas and Octavia Fernández. It is worth mentioning that Judge Justiniano Montero, who is currently a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice and a member of the Ibero-American Ethics Commission, was present at this activity. He is the manager of the contest at the international level, as an entity attached to the Ibero-American Judicial Summit.
