The judicial delay is 40% in SPS courts, says lawyer

San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Although the mora judicial in San Pedro Sula it has currently been reduced, it is still around 40 to 45%, according to lawyer Ángel Herrera.

The jurist indicated that this is a complex issue, which has suffered due to the lack of political will of the authorities of the Judicial Branch.

“Default has been a difficult issue to combat due to lack of political will through the corresponding bodies,” he says. At the same time, he admits that “it is also true that over time the mora judicial«.

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The progress is reflected if the numbers from before are compared with those currently recorded, Herrera points out.

«Before we talked about scandalous percentages like 60%, 65% lack of resolution. Today it has dropped between 40% to 45%, that is good. Besides, it is a challenge that the new authorities that were elected in January can combat it through the Supreme Court of Justice,” he explained.

More personal

The lawyer stated that the Judiciary needs to hire more personnel in the northern part of the country. “In the courts there is a lack of personnel in that area; and some personnel who are appointed are not paid or do not have an agreement,” he indicated.

Likewise, Herrera explained that hiring must be people with the necessary skills. “More trained personnel must be hired, not just hiring people who only come to warm up the position, but who come to solve it,” he highlighted.

Petition

A few months ago, through a statement, the private company asked the new Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), elected this year in the National Congress, to have independence and to make an effort to reduce the judicial delay left by the previous ones. magistrates.

The businessmen indicated that “late justice is not justice.” “We cannot continue with judicial processes whose average resolution in both instances and extraordinary resources is 5 to 10 years,” they communicate in the letter.

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