"The great challenge of Latin American and Spanish justice, once we have acquired a system of guarantees, is to offer credibility to citizens," said the magistrate of the Supreme Court of Spain, Pablo Llarena. The magistrate made his remarks during the conference "Challenges in the Ibero-American justice systems", in which he pondered the ... Read More

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) is of the opinion that the attempted crime is punishable regardless of the contingent cause that prevents the realization of the act, and consequently is punishable, as established in its sentence No. SCJ-SS-23-1013, dated September 29, 2023. The referred sentence ... Read more

International experts, jurists and deans spoke about the novelties introduced by the new Cassation Procedure Law No. 2-23 and the need for the academy to promote the use of jurisprudence as a learning tool. During the seminar "The teaching of law based on jurisprudence", held in the context of the "Law and jurisprudence" ... Read more

The Judicial Power Council (CPJ) distinguished 34 judges and judicial servants with the Order of Judicial and Administrative Merit; recognition corresponding to 2020, 2021 and 2022, an act headed by the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Henry Molina, and by the magistrate councilor Bionni Zayas Ledesma, president of the Organizing Committee ... Read More

Judge Vanessa Acosta Peralta, judge of the First Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, favored a paradigm shift and a different approach to repression for offenders related to problematic drug use, in order to find alternatives that allow them to reclaim themselves in society and the family. ... Read more

Two Puerto Rican experts recommended the implementation of non-adversarial mechanisms of conflict resolution in criminal matters to address the large number of cases that saturate the justice system of the Dominican Republic, and thus combat judicial delay. Ernesto Chiesa, professor at the University of Puerto Rico, and renowned lawyer Henry Padilla, ... Read More

During the opening ceremony of the Judicial Power Conference, the executive director of the World Justice Project, Elizabeth Anderson, says the DR is one of the few nations that guarantees a constant increase in its overall Rule of Law score, marking consecutive improvements every year. Santo Domingo East. - President Luis Abinader attended this morning the ... Read More

The presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Justice reported that nearly five thousand people attended the event during the three-day conference The presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Henry Molina, described the sixth version of the Judicial Power Conference as a success on Saturday, and said that its ... Read More

Different actors of the justice system participated in the third and last day of the Judicial Branch Conference, which was especially dedicated to academics and students. The attendees listened to the experiences of lawyers from countries such as Puerto Rico, Panama, Uruguay and Guatemala, aimed at building the justice system of the future. They highlighted the conclusions of the Agora ... Read more

The launch of the platform took place in the context of the celebration of the sixth Judicial Power 2024 Conference, which takes place on April 25, 26 and 27 at the Palace of Justice in Santo Domingo East The presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Henry Molina, together with the ... Read more