The Judicial Branch held the first forum of the Observatory, which analyzed the challenges of the justice system around transparency, accountability and citizen participation, reaffirming its commitment to the principles of open justice. The Observatory, created by the Judicial Branch of the Dominican Republic, is a forum for ... Read More

Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Molina and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Arias Arzeno met on Thursday with the CEO of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Sanjay Pradham, and the Director General of Ethics and Government Integrity, Sanjay Pradham, and the Director General of Ethics and Government Integrity, Samuel Arias Arzeno, to discuss the ... Read More

A study by the Barna Management School highlights that the use of digital signatures in judicial processes has reduced the time it takes to sign a final document from 2,880 to 30 minutes in collegiate and unipersonal courts Some 3,000 judicial officials sign their documents electronically, of which 750 judges, both male and female; ... Read More

Judge Martha Díaz Villafaña, president of the Civil Chamber of the Court of Appeals of the Judicial Department of San Francisco de Macorís, participated in the XXVII Annual Meeting of the Ordinary Jurisdiction of Colombia: the challenges of justice in the territories, in which she addressed the topic "Differential approaches: Gender violence, intersectionality, inclusion of women and men in the ... Read more

The Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the National Public Defense Office held the first national negotiation event with the aim of strengthening interoperability between these institutions, optimizing the criminal process, promoting agreements and other methods of alternative exits to speed up judicial cases. The activity was attended by the magistrates ... Read More

PARAGUAY - Judge Bionni Zayas Ledesma, member of the Council of the Judiciary (CPJ) of the Dominican Republic, called for reflection on how to contribute to eradicate gender violence and support victims in their search for justice. Judge Zayas Ledesma made the statement during the 20th Meeting of Women Judges of the Dominican Judicial Council (CPJ).... Read more

The Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) rejected an appeal for cassation, noting the lack of a cassation interest, which aims at the formation of jurisprudence, according to the new rules governing the cassation procedure. The cassation interest is an institution brought about by the law on ... Read more

PARAGUAY - Judge María Garabito Ramírez, judge of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), affirmed that the control of constitutionality and conventionality have been essential in the evolution of the rule of law in the Dominican Republic, with rulings that have had a significant impact on society. Among the emblematic rulings ... Read More