Posts Tagged ‘Rama Judicial’
A new opportunistic cartel
The Prosecutor’s Office should provide information on negotiations such as those made with former Governor Lyons to assess whether they are effective and prevent another cartel from forming.
Read More“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 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 MoreMulti-door Courthouses: A Good Idea Badly Administered
In the face of the crisis– and the stikes– in the judiciary, these alternative centers of attention become more important. What are they, what have they done, and how can they improve their services in Colombia.
Read MoreWrits of Constitutional Protection and Judicial Congestion
Levying some type of cost on entities that violate fundamental rights is a better strategy for avoding judicial congestion than recurring proposals asking for more money and more judges for the judiciary.
Read MoreGovernance and Administration of the Judiciary
Analysis of the reform proposals in the balance of powers project.
Read MoreJudging High-Level Public Servants
Last week there were newstories about two cases that involved high-level public servants.
Read MoreDemocratic Judicial Independence
Jules Jouy, a nineteenth century Frenchman, said that there were three types of judges: those that decide standing, those that decide sitting in their chairs, and those that decide laying face down.
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 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 MoreThe Legal System has More than Just Defects
Criticism of the legal system has resumed with force. Many are well-founded, since the judicial system suffers from a series of problems such as slowness, lack of access and transparency, and corruption.
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