Rogelio Genao proposes the creation of a fourth specialized chamber in the Supreme Court

Santo Domingo.- Senator for La Vega province, Rogelio Genao, announced that he submitted the Bill that Modifies the Organic Law of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ), in order to create the Fourth Chamber of this high court. The initiative seeks to raise the technical quality of judicial decisions, ensure in-depth jurisprudential development and, crucially, guarantee a prompt response to citizens in matters of high complexity. The bill is based on Article 152 of the Constitution, which empowers the SCJ to divide into chambers, and proposes an increase in the number of judges to twenty-two (22) to integrate the new structure. According to Senator Genao, the main objective is to separate contentious-administrative and contentious-tax matters from the Third Chamber, which currently deals with a dispersion of issues (labor, real estate, and contentious) that undermines its capacity to generate advanced jurisprudential development.

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The heart of the proposal by the senator of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) lies in the need to guarantee a more effective administrative justice, as required by a social and democratic state of law. Administrative jurisdiction is vital to maintain a control of legality over the organs of the State, translating directly into respect for the right to good administration that must assist all citizens, in accordance with the constitutional basis of article 139. The current problem lies in the fact that the Third Chamber faces the difficult task of hearing cassation appeals in matters whose doctrinal dogmatics are very specific and diverse. This plurality of jurisdictional requirements, especially in the contentious-administrative and tax fields, mitigates the possibility of providing prompt responses, compromising the fundamental right of litigants to judicial protection without delay.