Santo Domingo.- The Institutionality and Justice Foundation (Finjus) considered this Saturday that some challenges of great importance for Dominican society and democratic institutions arise from the justice system.
While the Dominican Association of Lawyers (Adoma) deplored the physical and environmental conditions in which lawyers practice their profession in some courthouses in the country, with the purpose of commemorating yesterday the Day of the Judiciary in the Dominican Republic.
When commemorating this Saturday the Day of the Judiciary, Finjus valued as positive the approval and promulgation of the law for the use of digital media in the Judiciary and its application regulations, to adequately face the reality of the limitations imposed by the health crisis of covid-19 and that puts us in tune with the processes of virtualization of judicial services worldwide, guaranteeing mechanisms for immediate and secure access in judicial matters.
“It is important to underline that this regulation was the product of a broad consensus with the legal community, legislative and academic sectors.”
Servio Tulio Castaños Guzmán, Executive Vice President of Finjus, said that the approval and promulgation of the law on the use of digital media in the Judiciary and its application regulations, to adequately face the reality of the limitations imposed by the health crisis and that puts us at in line with the virtualization processes of judicial services worldwide, guaranteeing immediate and secure access mechanisms in judicial matters.
It is important to underline that this regulation was the product of a broad consensus with the legal community, legislative and academic sectors.
“According to the compiled reports, there are significant reductions in default rates in almost all courts in the country,” he said.
