This Friday the National Directorate of Defender’s Office was created in Cuba, a figure that derives from the statutes of the update of the procedural laws, the Family Code and the Litigation Code.
According to the Cuban News Agency (Acn), this public service will be accessible through departments in the provincial Justice departments, attended by professionals in each municipality of the country.
Its director, Alejandro Redondo Ramos, assured that the Ombudsman’s Office will concentrate the roles played in the past by other institutions in charge of imparting justice such as the Attorney General’s Office and the People’s Supreme Court, among others.
Likewise, it will be used as a “legal resource with an emphasis on the protection of children, the elderly or in situations of vulnerability,” added Redondo Ramos.
It will also provide protection to victims of different manifestations of violence or other circumstances that could lead to discriminatory treatment and breach of guarantees.
The new instance of Justice will serve the interests and protection of the defendants in the civil, family, labor and commercial environment.
The emergence of the National Ombudsman Office is “a transcendental event” that “places Cuba a few steps closer to the ideal of justice for all,” said Leonardo Pérez Gallardo, tenured professor of Civil and Notarial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana.
