2024-09-01 15:51:30
The aspiring judges will enter the competitive exam in the next few days, which includes a theoretical and practical evaluation. For the theoretical exam, there will be 1,000 questions for each specialty called for the competition.
The practical exam will be carried out by solving 2 cases. Those who pass this phase will go on to a public hearing and a citizen challenge. They have already passed the application, merit, psychological and trust phases.
The 70 candidates who remain in the race to fill one of the 10 vacancies for magistrates in the National Court of Justice (CNJ), will enter in the next few days to take the fifth test within the competition organized by the Council of the Judiciary (CJ) since March 19, 2024 when it approved the Regulation for the designation.
This is the competitive exam (theoretical and practical exam). In this phase, the knowledge, technical and behavioral skills of the candidates will be evaluated. To complete this stage, the plenary session of the CJ must form and appoint the members of the Committee of Experts which, in turn, will form the qualification courts for the defense of the cases.
Article 65 of the Competition Regulations states that the Committee of Experts must prepare the question banks and practical cases for the theoretical and practical test phases based on the approved methodology. The theoretical test seeks to assess the level of technical knowledge and ability to resolve conflicts and analytical capacity that the candidates possess in relation to the knowledge required for the position of national judge.
The topics covered in these tests will be developed in question banks that candidates will have access to through the institutional website from the day of notification to take the test. Once the exam is over, the technological platform will send the results obtained via email to each candidate.
For the theoretical test, there will be 1,000 questions for each specialty called for the competition:
Civil and Commercial
Administrative Litigation
Tax Litigation
Family, Childhood, Adolescence and Juvenile Offenders
Criminal, Civil, Military, Police Criminal, Traffic, Corruption and Racketeering
The question bank will be published 72 hours before the contestants are called. The number of questions to be applied to each contestant is 100; the score for each question will be 0.20; the aspiring judges will have 2 hours to answer the 100 questions.
While the practical test It will be carried out by solving 2 cases; you will have 40 minutes to solve each case.
Applicants who pass this test will subsequently move on to a public hearingand finally, they will have to face a phase of citizen challenge.
The appointment process is expected to be completed in October this year. (SC)