The Judicial Department of Santiago organized the first Conversatory on Criminal Mediation, with the objective of analyzing the importance of establishing alternative methods of conflict resolution and begin to build a culture of peace. The words of welcome were pronounced by the coordinating judge of that jurisdiction, Juan Aníbal Rodríguez, who considered that due to the ... Read More

The XIX Meeting of Women Judges of the Highest Judiciary Bodies of Ibero-America concluded with the signing of the Declaration of Buenos Aires, "For a Gender Justice: Justice and Care with Co-responsibility", in which they commit themselves to assume the responsibility of protecting the right to care as a common good of the Ibero-American ... Read more

The Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice established that it corresponds to the Constitutional Court the execution of its own decisions, as provided in Article 9 of Law No. 137-11, Organic Law of the Constitutional Court. In its decision number SCJ-TS-23-0047, dated January 31, 2023, the Third Chamber of the SCJ established that it is incumbent upon the Constitutional ... Read More

In order to ensure that the information and messages of the Dominican Judicial Branch reach the different sectors of the country with greater clarity, and to continue strengthening the confidence of society in the justice system, judges and judicial servants socialized this Friday on the challenges and characteristics of the Spokespersons Program of the Judicial Branch of the ... Read More

Judges of the Supreme Court of Justice and counselors of the Dominican Judiciary participate in the XIX Meeting of Women Judges of the Highest Judiciary Bodies of Iberoamerica: Right to Care and Social Co-responsibility, for a gender justice, an event that takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the purpose of reflecting on the right to care and ... Read more

The President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Council of the Judiciary, Luis Henry Molina Peña, assured that the new "Dr. Adriano Miguel Tejada Chair of Justice and Communication" to be taught by the National School of the Judiciary will become a reference for lawyers, judges, academics and communicators. While delivering the keynote address during the ceremony, Mr. Tejada ... Read More

The Dominican Judiciary held the socialization of the Regulation of Non-Adversarial Dispute Resolution Mechanisms with members of the legal community and academia in order to enrich this instrument, which will be presented to the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) for its approval. The welcoming remarks at the socialization workshop ... Read More

The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) endorsed the criterion that it is not the competence of the court of appeal or cassation to make evidentiary assessment, a power that corresponds to the judges at the trial stage. By means of sentence No. SCJ-SS-23-0072, dated January 31, 2023, the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), ... Read More

La Inspectoría es un órgano de apoyo disciplinario del Consejo del Poder Judicial (CPJ), que tiene por finalidad verificar el funcionamiento de todas las unidades del Poder Judicial a los fines de una mejora continua y, por otra parte, tiene la función de investigar las faltas disciplinarias que hayan cometido todas las personas que pertenecen … Leer más

NUEVA YORK. – El presidente de la Suprema Corte de Justicia (SCJ), magistrado Luis Henry Molina Peña, se reunió en la sede de las Naciones Unidas de Nueva York con Richard Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada (presidente del Tribunal Supremo de Canadá) previo a su participación en una reunión de la Asociación Mundial de Juristas (WJA, … Leer más