2024-08-03 13:06:39
The problems in Judicial services have worsened this year because from February to June the Judicial Council has dismissed 53 judicial officials Of which 25 are judges linked by the Prosecutor’s Office to the organized crime or who committed some negligence.
The province of Guayas is the most affected with 15 judges dismissed As a result, criminal proceedings are delayed because hearings have to be suspended because there are no judges to take on the cases and temporary solutions are only sometimes found.
Julio Jara is a lawyer who says that They have to wait up to three months to the judges of penitentiary guarantees. While other lawyers express that they need the hearings are in person.
The other province with similar problems is Manabiwhere Three judges and a prosecutor were dismissed and four other judicial workers. This is stated in the Disciplinary Control report of the judiciary Council The report also highlights irregularities, as there are another 36 officials who are still in office despite having been dismissed due to negligence and inexcusable error. 31 of them are judges and five are prosecutors.
“Provincial directors of previous administrations, having previously issued jurisdictional declarations by the Constitutional Court, by the National Court of Justice and by judges of provincial courts, have had proceedings initiated and have been archived without informing the Judicial Council,” said Solanda Goyes, member of the Judicial Council.
All this recharges a Judicial Function that already had problemsIn Pichincha, for example, 12 officials were dismissed But there are no judges among them. Even so, the Bar Association describes problems due to the shortage of judges.