Posts Tagged ‘Consejo Superior de la Judicatura’
“The Conception of the Constitutional Court is Too Narrow”
César Rodríguez Garavito spoke about the face-off between the government and Congress with the judiciary due to the Constitutional Court’s ruling about the judiciary in this interview with Cecilia Orozco for El Espectador.
Read MoreThe Trouble Caused by Seeking to Replace the Higher Council of the Judiciary
Was the remedy worse than the disease? Infographic.
Read MoreJudicial Corporatism
The integration proposal for the Judicial Government Council (CGJ, after its initials in Spanish), which would replace the discredited Judiciary Council, and which was approved in the seventh congressional debate, is slightly better than what was coming, but it continues to be very bad, as it does not consider that in the judicial government there ought to be independent, external voices beyond judges’.
Read MoreGovernance and Administration of the Judiciary
Analysis of the reform proposals in the balance of powers project.
Read MoreMonitoring Criminal Sanctions imposed on Teenagers: Formulating a Methodolgy
In this document we describe the watch group monitoring criminal sanctions imposed on teenagers under the Criminal Responsibility System for Teenagers (SRPA in Spanish).
Read MoreSanctions for Teenagers in the Judicial District of Medellin
Dejusticia designed a system to monitor the sanctions imposed on teenagers by the Criminal Responsibility System for Teenagers (SRPA in Spanish). This document describes how it worked and the results of the pilot-test.
Read MoreSecond Attempt at Judicial Reform: What is Essential?
After the last failure, we are still waiting for a proposal that will allow us to overcome the three main problems in the judicial system. A key issue is to reform the Superior Council of the Judiciary, which has brought so much discredit to the judicial branch.
Read MoreA Surgical Judicial Reform?
The recent scandals about corruption in the Judicial branch are serious and they add to other deficiencies of the judicial system, like it’s slowness in certain areas. Some, therefore, propose a total reformation of the judicial system, as if it had collapsed.
Read MoreChallenge to the appointment of Mr. Pedro Munar Cadena as magistrate of the High Judicial Council
Dejusticia challenges the election of Dr. Pedro Munar Cadena as judge of the High Judicial Council, as his appointment violated article 126 of the Constitution.
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