Historically, the blackberry judicial has represented one of the greatest challenges for the system, since, for years, the courts have experienced a very significant volume of unresolved cases, reducing effective access to justice for thousands of citizens.
After decades of complaints about the blockages and traffic jams of the judicial departments, the great giant that has affected the users of the system seems to have begun to give way.
According to a report that he Judiciary exclusively supplied to Free Diary64% of the rooms have no issues pending resolution. This means that the delay judicial In the country it went from 66,500 to 17,921 cases in the last 10 months.
According to the reportfrom January to October 2024, the rooms per day increased from 251 to 438. This implies that in this period the blackberry judicial was reduced by approximately 73%. The majority of cases awaiting resolution correspond to new matters and amount to 11,892.
Jhonattan Toribiogeneral director of Administration and Judicial Career, assures that the fight against blackberry It is a constant battle.
“At the end of October, our case management system statistics told us that 64% of courts They had no cases in blackberry and that is something variable, because today there are cases in blackberrytomorrow too, and it is not a fight for one date, it is something that is built day by day,” he says.
According to these statistics, at the beginning of 2024, more than half of the theaters in the country were behind schedule. However, by October, 10 of the 11 judicial departments distributed throughout the national territory exceeded 57% of courtrooms per day and four of them were above 74%.
These results are the product of the “Courts a Day” initiative, which seeks to resolve pending issues and stabilize the operations of the courts. courts at the national level.
He Can judicial explains in his report that the strategy applied for these purposes has had a comprehensive approach that contemplates the actions necessary to resolve issues, the strengthening of operational capacity through personnel actions, the implementation of the Jurisdictional Operation Support Center, the training and training, and continuous monitoring and follow-up of jurisdictional work.
Saint Dominic It is the most delinquent department
The judicial department that is found with the most blackberry At the national level it is Saint Dominicthat of 79 rooms, only 28 are on time in their solutions, which represents a delay of 64%.
“The province of Saint Dominic has a challenge infrastructure that directly affects your results. Part of what we are working on is the entire process of enabling the Palace of Justice Saint Dominic This and also implementing the different solutions,” he says.
This judicial department is the one that receives the most cases nationwide. It concentrates the largest industrial centers in the territory. In this demarcation, a court of Labor can receive approximately four times the number of matters that reach other courts of that category in other provinces, according to the jurist.
The server points out that, in the middle of this year, the return of documents was implemented in the Civil Chamber, located in the Ozama expansion. “In that center they already return your documents; that affects the efficiency of the Court,” he adds.
The technology is the greatest ally
The reduction of the blackberry judicial has come very hand in hand with the innovation. Starting in 2020, the justice Dominican Republic experienced a technological transformation that has been very beneficial for the system.
He manager of ICT systems of the Judiciarybased in the Department of La VegaRicy Bidó Astacio, assures that by 2019 the justice practically had a delay of around 20 years in terms of the use of technology for both jurisdictional and administrative processes.
“One of the important aspects and problems we had at that time were the aspects related to the process of digitization. Everything was manual and on paper. He Judiciary dedicated itself to the automation of its jurisdictional and administrative processes and there arose the famous Management System of Caseswhich is basically an information system that automates the operations of the court“, he expresses.
He Management System of Cases (SGC) understand infrastructure technological that standardizes and supports the different tasks performed by judicial servants, from the reception of requests, their digitizationassignment and scheduling of hearings, until the final decision is issued.
438
The number of courts per day throughout the country. In the Dominican Republic there are 698 courtrooms.
The digitization of the files It is another of the important technological implementations to make the system more efficient. Likewise, the zero paper program has facilitated the work of judges and allowed more use of the spaces in the judicial premises.
In accordance with the data of the Observatory of the Judicial Powersince mid-July 2020 to date, about 400,000 files.
Toribio affirms that 30% of the documents that enter the Judiciary is digitized at the input. “We have already changed the history of archivists for digitizers or office workers,” he says.
He Judicial Department of La Vega has contributed considerably to the execution of digital programs, being pioneer in other projects that have expanded throughout the national territory, such as virtual hearings and the interconnection of venues, the latter being only available in this jurisdiction.
On July 30, 2022, the Executive Branch promulgated the Use Law of Digital Media in the Judiciarywhich enables the use of the digital signature for judges and judicial servants, the creation and access of the parties to the file judicial electronic, and other facilities and advantages that the transformation judicial makes it possible.
Recently, the Judiciary announced the expansion of the Access Platform Digital to 50 additional rooms in civil and commercial matters from different judicial departments, which will facilitate access to the justice in an agile, secure way and from anywhere to users.
The support in technologies and the use of digital media has allowed the justice have a higher level of control over sentences and have all the information on their activities in real time.
The causes and challenges of blackberry
The blackberry has been the problem most attacked by the Judiciary Dominican, since it is the main indicator to evaluate the system efficiency. By consulting various actors in the system, Free Diary identified that among the main causes are: lack of personnel judicialinsufficient judges and low budget.
The Dominican Republic is a country with 10.7 million inhabitants, according to data from the latest population census. To respond to all the needs of justicethere are only 739 judges nationwide.
“He Judiciary continues to be at the budgetary level ‘the Cinderella’ of the public powers, and even more so with a law that specializes a percentage of resources that correspond to it that is in no way respected,” indicates the president of the Bar AssociationTrajano Vidal Potentini.
He budget of the Judiciary For this year it amounted to 9,544.3 million pesos, of which the institution has earned around 8,105.7 million pesos. Article 3 of Law 194-04 states that the budgets of the Judiciary and the Public Ministry will be at least 4.10% of the internal income of the State, 65% for the first and 35% for the second.
The chairwoman of the National Network of Judges, Yokaurys Morales Castillo, points out that the employees of the Judiciary They have gone around 10 years without receiving a salary adjustment to level out the effects of inflation on their salaries.
He president of the Dominican Association of Justices of the Peace, Dante Ozuna Mercedes, highlights the need to modernize Law 821-27, since the organization judicial current may be one of the causes of delays in courtsconsidering the workload of some venues.
