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Codenot inaugurates National and International Notarial Conferences in Punta Cana

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Punta Cana. – The president of the Dominican College of Notaries (Codenot), Dr. Jhon Richard Paniagua Féliz, launched this Friday a firm call for professional integrity by warning that "we cannot continue to be accomplices of bad notarial practices and that once and for all they must be eradicated to safeguard the legal security of the nation".

The pronouncement was made during the opening of the XXXVIII National Notarial Conference and the XI International Conference, which are being held until Sunday the 14th at the convention center of the Barceló Bávaro Beach. The event brings together universities, public institutions, national and international experts, and the Dominican notarial community. The event focuses on modernization, ethics, and legal security, with a program that includes more than a dozen panels and conferences on regulatory and technological updates, strengthening ethical values, the use of digital tools, and inter-institutional cooperation. The academic agenda began with the university panel "Academic Innovation and Notarial Training: Contributions of Universities to the Modernization of Notarial Law", moderated by former Supreme Court Justice and former prosecutor Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, with the participation of UASD, APEC, UNPHU, Universidad Central del Este, among others. This Saturday, simultaneous discussions will be held on institutional conflict management, legal oratory, notarial ethics, transparency in public procurement, commercial registry, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and accessibility in notarial services.

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The conference will close on Sunday with the panel "Human Rights: Transparency and Ethics as the Basis of Integrity and Legal Security", in which Antoliano Peralta Romero, Emmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Rhadys Iris Abreu, David Figueroa Márquez and Hernán de la Fuente will present, under the rapporteurship of magistrate Pedro Pablo Yermenos Forastieri.

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