Deputies prepare a judicial reform bill with more than 100 changes

Deputies prepare a judicial reform bill with more than 100 changes

Mexico City. The House of Representatives’ Constitutional Affairs Committee has already prepared the draft opinion on judicial reform, which includes more than 100 changes to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s initiative on the matter. Among the key changes is that the election by popular vote of the nine ministers who will henceforth make up the … Read more

Judicial reform must begin with the election of judges, magistrates and ministers: AMLO

Judicial reform must begin with the election of judges, magistrates and ministers: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated that the reform of the Judicial Branch must be carried out in stages, and begin with the election of judges, magistrates and ministers, “so that it is the people who elect the members of the Judicial Branch, which is why there is so much resistance.” He assured that current … Read more

JUFED rejects appointing judges by popular vote

JUFED rejects appointing judges by popular vote

The National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (JUFED) decided to absolutely reject the appointment of judges by popular vote, and as part of its actions against the reform of the Judicial Branch, it will express its position through the “placing of banners in rejection of the … Read more

Presidential initiative “is not a good reform to the PJF”: Minister Laynez

Presidential initiative “is not a good reform to the PJF”: Minister Laynez

Mexico City. For Minister Javier Laynez Potisek, a reform of the Federal Judicial Branch (PJF) is necessary to address the country’s justice problems, but the solution is not the current presidential initiative that will be discussed in the coming days in the commissions of the Chamber of Deputies. In a statement released this Sunday by … Read more

CJF prepares new day of analysis for the reform of the Judicial Branch

CJF prepares new day of analysis for the reform of the Judicial Branch

Mexico City. The Federal School of Judicial Training (EFFJ) will hold the National Conference “The Reform of the Judicial Branch in the Voice of the Judiciary”, with the aim of creating a space for reflection and analysis on the central themes of the initiative to reform the Judicial Branch. The Federal Judicial Council (CJF) reported … Read more

Taddei warns of high cost of the process to select judges

Taddei warns of high cost of the process to select judges

Mexico City. The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, proposed to the Chamber of Deputies that the process to elect judges, magistrates and ministers requires “a budget in accordance with the size of the exercise” and, later, she specified to reporters that it would cost “more or less the same as a … Read more

Esquivel Mossa presents three proposals for choosing judges

Esquivel Mossa presents three proposals for choosing judges

Mexico City. Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), announced three proposals so that those who already have a career in the judicial career can access in a “priority” manner the positions of judges that would be determined by popular vote, in case the reform in this matter … Read more

Judicial reform might “negatively have an effect on” investments, says Fitch

Judicial reform might “negatively have an effect on” investments, says Fitch

Mexico Metropolis. The outcomes of the June 2 election have elevated the probability of a collection of legislative adjustments in Mexico, which has already led to episodes of volatility; nonetheless, the judicial reform might “negatively have an effect on” the funding local weather within the nation, Fitch Rankings warned, including that, regardless of “better uncertainty … Read more

Judicial reform is urgently wanted within the states of the Republic: Díaz Mena

Judicial reform is urgently wanted within the states of the Republic: Díaz Mena

Mexico Metropolis. The Governor-elect of Yucatan, Joaquín Díaz Mena, thought-about that judicial reform can be pressing within the states of the Republic, with the intention to have a renewal of judges and magistrates who reply to the pursuits of the residents, not of the events that appointed them. Within the state that he’ll govern beginning … Read more

Jufed will problem eventual approval of judicial reform

Jufed will problem eventual approval of judicial reform

On Worldwide Legal professionals’ Day and with a protest rally, the Nationwide Affiliation of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (Jufed) warned this Friday that if the reform to the Federal Judicial Department (PJF) is accredited within the phrases proposed by the federal Government, they are going to reply with challenges in nationwide and worldwide courts. … Read more