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Judicial Scale
The Council of the Judiciary is the administrative and disciplinary body of the Judiciary, whose functions include, according to the Constitution and the Organic Law of the Council of the Judiciary No. 28-11.
To present to the plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice the candidates for appointment, determination of hierarchy and promotion of the judges of the different courts of the Judicial Branch, in accordance with the law; as well as the transfer of judges of the Judicial Branch.
Law No. 327-98, of Judicial Career, its implementing regulations and the Regulations that Organize the Judicial Ranking System and the System for the Provision of Judicial Positions, establishes that judges will be promoted in the judicial career ladder to the next higher category, according to the previous qualification of accumulated merits, years in service, post-graduate courses, bibliographic production and the result of the evaluation of their performance.
