Tag: Argentina judicial reform

• Thursday, July 30th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentina announces a bill to reform the judiciary: strong reaction from the opposition

  

  Argentina’s government on Wednesday launched a bid to reform the judiciary by increasing the number of federal courts, diluting the power of those that already exist, in what the opposition has labelled as an attempt to manipulate the court system.

• Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 07:06 UTC

  Cascade of legal challenges to Cristina Fernandez Council of Magistrates reform

  

  At least sixteen different organizations from magistrates to political parties filed on Monday legal challenges after Argentine president Cristina Fernandez signed the Council of Magistrates reform into law and called for elections of council members.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentina openly clashes with UN over the judicial reform; calls Rapporteur ‘ignorant’

  

  Argentina expressed on Tuesday its “discomfort” over the “unheard of” attitude displayed by the UN Special Rapporteur, Gabriela Knaul, who urged the Cristina Fernández administration to reconsider the Council of Magistrates reform and injunction regulation bills.

• Friday, April 26th 2013 - 07:20 UTC

  In chaotic session Argentina approves controversial bills of the judicial reform

  

  Argentina’s Lower House passed early Thursday morning after an overnight and at time chaotic debate the most controversial bills contained in a judicial reform which the administration of President Cristina Fernandez is obsessed in having approved before mid May.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church criticism of judicial reform triggers ironic statements from Senator

  

  The Cristina Fernandez administration renewed relations with the Catholic Church, since the naming of Cardinal Bergoglio from Buenos Aires Pope Francis could be facing their first challenge because of the controversial judicial reform the Argentine president is pushing through congress.