NewsWhore
09-25-2008, 04:30 PM
Writing in today's El Caribe, lawyer Leila Mejia comments that the government's constitutional reform proposal for the judiciary will worsen the present situation of judicial inefficiency. She says the 1994 constitutional reform made the mistake of granting the Supreme Court of Justice, more power than it has in any other country in the world, aside from the vertical structure where no one dares contradict the wishes of the Supreme Court judges. Politicians had the most say in the choice of the judges.
She criticizes the fact that the constitutional reform proposal made by President Leonel Fernandez would make 7 of 11 members of the board that would take decisions by majority directly or indirectly or subordinates to the Supreme Court of Justice and its head.
She comments that hefty investments in public relations have not quelled the generalized feeling that rejects the present judicial system for being expensive and increasingly inefficient.
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She criticizes the fact that the constitutional reform proposal made by President Leonel Fernandez would make 7 of 11 members of the board that would take decisions by majority directly or indirectly or subordinates to the Supreme Court of Justice and its head.
She comments that hefty investments in public relations have not quelled the generalized feeling that rejects the present judicial system for being expensive and increasingly inefficient.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)