A commission of the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice met with the President of the Senate, Eduardo Estrella, in order to discuss inter-institutional cooperation plans in relation to the prioritized legislative agenda being carried out by both branches of government. The Legislative Agenda Commission that met in the Senate was headed by Justice Luis Henry Molina Peña, President of the Supreme Court of Justice, and the ... Read More

The Judicial Department of La Vega presented an overall average of 104.13% of responses to requests registered in the first semester of the current year, in the service offered by the courts to the users of that judicial department. The report details 96.82% solutions from the courts in the month of January; February 97.47%; March 97.47%; March ... Read More

Former Dominican magistrate Ramón Horacio González Pérez was recognized at the Plenary Assembly for his independent, immaculate, honest and responsible exercise of his judicial functions The President of the Supreme Court of Justice and of the Judicial Council, Magistrate Luis Henry Molina Peña, headed the Dominican commission that participated in the Plenary Assembly of the XX Plenary Assembly of the XX ... Read More

The Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), in exercise of the powers contained in Article 96.3 of the Constitution, deposited this afternoon in the Office of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco, the Proposed Law on the Use of Digital Media in the Judiciary, whose initiative aims to establish the principles and guidelines for the use of digital media in the Judicial Branch... Read more

Judge Vanessa Acosta Peralta, member of the civil chamber of this high court and deputy coordinator of the Commission for Gender Equality of the Judiciary understands that in this matter there are great advances, among them that in order to enter the judicial career it is necessary to pass a contest regardless of whether you are a man or a woman. The judge of ... Read more

For the first time in history, the Judicial Power Council of the Dominican Republic published in its web portal the Judicial Ranking, as established in Article 14 of Resolution 001-2021, which establishes the Regulation that organizes the Judicial Ranking System and the System for the Provision of Judicial Positions. Likewise, it publishes the list of vacant positions and ... Read More

The main objective of the meeting, which took place in Ohio, was to discuss the use of technology as a fundamental tool in judicial operations to continuously improve processes, access to justice, equity and inclusion. A commission of the Judicial Branch participated as a guest at the Court Technology Conference (CTC) 2021, in which ... Read More

The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice established the criterion that although in our legal system the figure of the referral provision is not expressly contemplated in any legal text, it can be validly granted based on Article 109 of Law No. 834 of 1978, on the grounds of urgency, ... Read More

The Judicial Power Council, in its ordinary session No. 036-2021 dated September 28, 2021, approved Resolution No. 006-2021, which introduces some modifications to Resolution No. 001-2021; in said session, the publication of the Judicial Scale and the beginning of the process for the filling of positions, based on Resolution 001-2021, were authorized. Among the ... Read more

The president of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, magistrate Francisco A. Jerez Mena, assured that the Judicial Power of the Dominican Republic ratifies its commitment with the Central American and Caribbean countries in the fight against money laundering and financing of terrorism. He explained that these crimes tend to ... Read More