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Judicial departments of Montecristi, Puerto Plata and Santiago show progress in reducing judicial delays and access to justice   

Judicial departments of Montecristi, Puerto Plata and Santiago show progress in reducing judicial delays and access to justice   

The judicial departments of Montecristi, Puerto Plata and Santiago presented this Friday the advances of their courts in the reduction of delinquency, accessibility to justice and the application of technology in their different courtrooms, in the framework of the construction of the ten-year strategic plan of the Judiciary. In the event, headed by ... Read More

Experts agree on importance of strengthening relationship between judges and journalists  

The Judicial Branch and the National School of the Judiciary (ENJ) concluded the specialized course "Judicial Communication", organized by the Chair of Justice and Communication "Adriano Miguel Tejada", created with the purpose of generating an academic space to reflect on judicial communication in the Dominican Republic. The closing of the course, which took place over a period of ... Read more

Some 2,000 people have participated in the process of building the ten-year plan for the Judicial Branch. 

So far some two thousand people have participated in the internal and external meetings held by the Dominican Judicial Branch in order to build its ten-year strategic planning to achieve the justice of the future that has people at its center. These regional workshops, which have been held in the judicial departments of the Dominican ... Read More

Judicial Council awards prizes to winners of the XVIII version of the Judicial Ethics Contest 

The contest aims to promote a context of institutional integrity in the judiciary and the Dominican society, under a vision that the best way to profess and defend a framework of sustainable improvement over time is to assume public administration in the orbit of ethics The judge of the Court of Appeals of ... Read More

Judicial Branch adds 50 Civil and Commercial courtrooms to the Digital Access Platform nationwide  

This branch of the State is in full expansion of the Digital Access Portal and it is expected that all Civil and Commercial chambers will be operating under this platform by the end of this year. The Judicial Branch announced the expansion of the Digital Access Platform to 50 additional courtrooms in Civil and Commercial ... Read More

Plenary of the SCJ approves amendment to the regulations governing the Committee on Ethical Conduct of the Judicial Branch 

Plenary of the SCJ approves amendment to the regulations governing the Committee on Ethical Conduct of the Judicial Branch

The Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice, in its session number 26-2024, approved the modification of the Regulation that regulates the Committee of Ethical Behavior of the Judiciary. This is an instrument that seeks to strengthen the system of institutional integrity in the administration of justice, under the logic that a good ethical performance of the judiciary is ... Read More

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