2024-01-16 03:15:00
The Superior Court of Justice (STJ) of Río Negro put the magnifying glass, once once more, on the activity of criminal judges in the province. Now it has regulated virtual hearings by agreement, granted more power to the Judicial Office and placed restrictions on the parties: they cannot read writings and Your oral intervention should not exceed 25 minutes.
The pandemic accelerated a process that the Judiciary had already started: adding virtual hearings to the criminal process to speed up the justice service. With this agreed, Endless criminal hearings will end in 2024 in which the parties argued and went around the bush.
The thing is that the STJ, following analyzing all the hearings from last year, decided to optimize the time.
By agreement, it dictated a series of rules and He imposed a maximum time of 25 minutes on each party to litigate.
Along with this, the prohibition of reading papers, a constant among both private lawyers and some officials of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. It was another issue that had been raised. In a completely adversarial and oral system, six years following the code change it was still read.
The highest provincial court considered that they already had enough training time and that is why they signed agreement 24 in which they completely removed the scripts. Study and improvise, no notes. This regulation will further expose the capabilities of magistrates to litigate in criminal jurisdiction.
In the same regulationsgranted greater powers to the Judicial Office to set hearings in the evening and also urgent hearings outside of business hours. This year, the judges, the prosecution and defense will work much harder.
The STJ has already discussed the need to add working hours in the followingnoon to improve the access to justice service. The STJ also gave a twist to virtual hearings. Although they were installed to stay in the pandemic, The modality was regulated through different regulations and resolutions.
Currently, in-person hearings coexist with virtual ones because in fact, for the Judiciary it implies greater productivity. In other words, since the number of in-person rooms is limited, the number of hearings can be doubled by combining virtual and in-person hearings.
Anyway, The virtual hearing always has to be justified for some reason, especially in the distance when, for example, one of the parties is in another city.
What this new agreement added is greater control for judges: they must be connected from their offices. This extra requirement came following it was noticed that some magistrates in the province were connecting to their offices from strange places: Yes, some of them from strangers.
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