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President of SCJ says Judicial Branch seeks to de-judicialize administrative processes to decongest courts

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The measure would benefit users by allowing them to receive these services in an agile manner, saving time, resources and reducing the number of steps required to obtain such services.

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), Luis Henry Molina Peña, said that the implementation of a Law for the De-judicialization and Simplification of Administrative Procedures would reduce by approximately 20% the 551,000 cases that enter the courts each year, and thus contribute to a timely, accessible and more efficient justice.

Molina Peña said that, of these 551,000 cases, 49% correspond to administrative procedures, i.e., matters whose nature does not involve a conflict between parties, and that the implementation of the Law of De-Judicialization and Simplification of Procedures would allow these cases not to go to court, saving time and resources for users, reducing the steps to obtain the service.

In this sense, he stated that procedures such as the registration of animal prints, non-dispossessory pledge contracts, divorces by mutual consent and ratifications of civil status certificates should be left out of the responsibility of judges, considering that they intervene when there are conflicts between parties to be settled.

He said that this type of user services can be perfectly solved by other specialized government agencies.

The president of the SCJ made the statement during a meeting with 123 judges from the judicial departments of La Vega and San Francisco de Macoris, the fifth of its kind, organized to explain the changes in the judicial train from the perspective of the Strategic Plan Vision Justice 20/24 of the Judiciary.

The also president of the Judicial Power Council stated that for the transformation of the Judicial Power it is essential to modify this and other legislative initiatives, such as the amendment of the Law on Cassation Appeal Procedure, the Law on Judicial Organization, the one that modifies the limits of judges and another one that allows for the optimization and efficiency of the processes in all matters.

He indicated that the implementation of these legislations, added to the one already applied in the country on the Use of Digital Media in the Judiciary, would contribute significantly to the changes required by the justice system.

The opening remarks of this meeting were given by the judge coordinator of the Judicial Department of SFM, Magistrate Juan Aníbal Medrano, who said that Justice a Day to ensure the dignity of people is the raison d'être of the justice system, and valued the projects that are implemented through this strategy to put people at the center of judicial activity.

The presentation of the milestones and achievements of both departments was made by the departmental coordinators of La Vega and SFM respectively, Magistrate Arelis Ricourt and Magistrate Claudio Aníbal Medrano, who spoke about the initiatives implemented in these jurisdictions aimed at improving the quality of services provided to users.

The meeting was attended by Justice Francisco Jerez, president of the Second Chamber of the SCJ, as well as members of the Judicial Power Council, Modesto Martínez and Bionni Zayas.

Also the judges of the Judicial Department of SFM Martha Diaz Villafaña, deputy coordinator; Gregorio Cordero Medina, presiding judge of the Superior Land Court; Julio Manuel Castillo, presiding judge of the Labor Court; Delfina A. de Leon, presiding judge of the Court of Appeals for Children and Adolescents; and from the Judicial Department of La Vega, Amauris Antonio Pimentel, presiding judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals.

The Judicial Department of La Vega also includes the Judicial Districts of Espaillat, Constanza, Sánchez Ramírez and Monseñor Nouel, while that of SFM includes the Districts of Duarte, Hermanas Mirabal, María Trinidad Sánchez and Samaná.

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