In March, the JSCA team traveled to Bogotá to meet with the Colombian and Peruvian consulting teams working on the project “Civil and Family Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Their Effectiveness in Colombia and Peru. The project has gathered information on the functioning of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) through interviews with authorities, officials and users of mediation and conciliation centers. JSCA’s consulting teams in both…
Regional Workshop: Procedural Congestion in the Americas: Status, Best Practices and Future Prospects
Watch the Video of the Conversation (in Spanish) A historical challenge for the region’s judicial systems is the proper management of procedural congestion. Since its inception, JSCA has focused on the need to generate comparable data on judicial production, resolution rates and procedural congestion rates in justice institutions as central issues in the agenda and discussions on the efficiency of justice institutions[1]. The control of…
Impact of the proyect “Implementation of Federal Criminal Procedure Reform and Strengthening of Provincial Accusatory System”
JSCA to train more than 800 officials of the Mexico City Judicial Branch
More than 800 officials from the Mexico City Judicial Branch (PJCDMX) will receive specialized JSCA training on civil and family justice reforms in the Americas, with an emphasis on the installation and strengthening of orality in both areas. The courses are part of a program supported by the Judicial Studies Institute of the PJCDMX, the Commission for the Implementation of Civil, Commercial and Extinction of…
“Ways to resolve civil and family conflicts and their effectiveness in Colombia and Peru” (IDRC – JSCA)
Throughout 2023, two JSCA consulting teams formed by Mateo Vasquez Echeverri, Samed Mateo Vargas Montero, Leonardo García and Lizeth Johanna Ñungo Pérez (Colombia) and the Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights Eduardo Vega Luna, Federico Chunga Fiestas and Cristell Paola Casani Apaza (Peru) have traveled to six locations in these countries to meet with officials from conciliation centers, with the aim of reflecting and…