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12-12-2011, 01:00 PM
The National Council of Magistrates (CNM) is preparing to start evaluating eight of the current 14 members of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) at 11am today with the idea of addressing the appointments of the 40 members and substitutes of these three high courts in the next few hours. The Magistrates who will be submitted to the examination process are the Chief Justice of the SCJ, Jorge Subero Isa, Deputy Chief Justice Eglis Esmurdoc Castellanos, Julio Anibal Suarez, Dulce Rodriguez de Goris, Victor Jose Castellanos, Edgar Hernandez Mejia, Ana Rosa Berges Dreyfous and Enilda Reyes Perez.
In the meantime the magistrates who will not take part in the evaluations because they are at or beyond the obligatory retirement age are: Hugo Alvarez Valencia, Jose Hernandez Machado, Pedro Romero Confesor, Juan Luperon Vasquez and Dario Fernandez Espinal. The Deputy Chief Justice of the SCJ, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, was evaluated by the CNM as a candidate for the Higher Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which will be composed of five titular judges and a same number of substitutes. The CNM ended the evaluations of 272 of the 281 possible candidates for the seats on the three courts: The SCJ, the TSE and the Constitutional Tribunal.
The CNM has met on 40 occasions since President Leonel Fernandez convened it on 11 August. The President said that they had worked for 100 hours over the four months and that if it was done like that it was because "we wanted to do this a transparently as possible."
"I am sure that when we proceed to the definitive selection of those who will make up the high courts, the Dominican Republic will be a nation that will have the security of being able to count with honest, prepared, talented and committed magistrates with the judicial security of the state of law," stated the President. The CNM will carry out the third selection of Supreme Court judges since it met for the first time in 1997. The second time was in 2001.
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In the meantime the magistrates who will not take part in the evaluations because they are at or beyond the obligatory retirement age are: Hugo Alvarez Valencia, Jose Hernandez Machado, Pedro Romero Confesor, Juan Luperon Vasquez and Dario Fernandez Espinal. The Deputy Chief Justice of the SCJ, Rafael Luciano Pichardo, was evaluated by the CNM as a candidate for the Higher Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which will be composed of five titular judges and a same number of substitutes. The CNM ended the evaluations of 272 of the 281 possible candidates for the seats on the three courts: The SCJ, the TSE and the Constitutional Tribunal.
The CNM has met on 40 occasions since President Leonel Fernandez convened it on 11 August. The President said that they had worked for 100 hours over the four months and that if it was done like that it was because "we wanted to do this a transparently as possible."
"I am sure that when we proceed to the definitive selection of those who will make up the high courts, the Dominican Republic will be a nation that will have the security of being able to count with honest, prepared, talented and committed magistrates with the judicial security of the state of law," stated the President. The CNM will carry out the third selection of Supreme Court judges since it met for the first time in 1997. The second time was in 2001.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)