Cases resolved at the TSA represent double the number of cases made in the years 2014 to 2020, a period in which that jurisdiction issued 4,909 decisions.
The president of the Superior Administrative Court (TSA), Magistrate Diomede Villalona Guerrero, informed that during 2022, the court will handle 10,802 cases, thus continuing with the decongestion plan of the court that had already been implemented in 2021.
From April 2021 to December of last year, there was a greater growth in the jurisdictional work of each of the components of the court.
During 2022, the TSA received 4,846 cases, and 4,665 cases were decided on the merits. In addition to these statistics, the TSA also received preliminary investigation measures and cases related to tax litigation, administrative litigation, amparo actions, among others.
"We are talking about a court that receives files from users from all over the country, that is to say, the Superior Administrative Court has national jurisdiction and, therefore, has a large volume of appeals that arrive throughout the year," explained Judge Villalona Guerrero.
The presiding judge of this jurisdiction said that the court currently has 3,465 cases in the process of being instructed, of which 857 correspond to tax litigation and 2,608 to administrative litigation.
By the year 2022, 58.67% of the cases filed were resolved in approximately six months, thus eradicating the delay in the investigation of the cases that had been occurring year after year, with all the files that had completed their investigation process being adjudicated, leaving as pending the cases already in the process of investigation and those that are fixed, being heard according to the deadlines established by Law.
"The success that the court has been reflecting in recent years is due to several factors, first the unity, the teamwork of the judges and judicial servants of the TSA. Secondly, to the support we have received from the higher authorities, from the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Luis Henry Molina Peña, as well as the technological advances that have been implemented, which have allowed us to develop the case system, so we have the tool of files in digital format", explained magistrate Villalona.
For the year 2023, the president of the TSA explained that the goal is to maintain a quality staff and exceed the number of decisions issued in 2022, a challenge that he said can be achieved with hard work and the implementation of the Law on the Use of Digital Media in the Judiciary, with which "users will have more access to the court and can continue to streamline services, as the community deserves," said Judge Villalona.
And he added: "all users who have pending matters in court and who have been notified of the reading of the judgment, can go to the Court Secretariat for notification, and the others can follow up on their active proceedings".
In the middle of the year, the Case Management System was implemented, integrating in the Superior Administrative Court all the systems that previously operated, obtaining an optimization, transparency and accuracy of the processes once proxied in the court, achieving 98.61% of response to the procedures and secretarial requests to the users.
The Dominican Judicial Branch, through its Strategic Plan Vision Justice 2024 and the Justice a Day strategy to guarantee the dignity of the people, worked on the Zero Delay milestone, which concentrates efforts on reducing these delays in all instances, meeting the deadlines and responding within the deadlines established by law.
About the TSA:
Article 164 of the Constitution establishes that the Superior Administrative Court is a Specialized Jurisdiction, divided into chambers and whose decisions may be appealed in cassation.
At present, this jurisdiction has five chambers and 17 judges (the presiding judge, 3 in each of the chambers and one itinerant judge).
During the 2021 implementation of the decongestion plan, the jurisdiction came to work with eight courtrooms.
