Tag: Ricardo Lorenzetti

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 21:11 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court Justice favors autonomous agency to tackle drug trafficking

  

  Argentine Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti has insisted that the fight against drug trafficking and the bloodshed it causes should be entrusted to an office that transcends political mandates. Lorenzetti, from the city of Rafaela in the province of Santa Fe, which includes the violence-torn city of Rosario, said that the creation of the National Anti-Drug Trafficking Agency would be promoted by the judiciary.

• Saturday, April 30th 2016 - 12:41 UTC

  British Supreme Court Justice gives a lecture in Buenos Aires on the Carta Magna

  

  Visiting British Supreme Court Justice Lord Robert Carnwath gave a lecture for the United Kingdom Course of the University of San Andres, in Buenos Aires. Among important participants to the event were the President of Argentina’s maximum tribunal, Ricardo Lorenzetti, as well as magistrates, prosecutors and renowned law experts.

• Friday, July 10th 2015 - 07:34 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court rules on patient's right to choose a dignified death

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court upheld “the right of every patient to choose a dignified death,” drawing a sharp distinction between halting treatment and euthanasia. Justices confirmed a lower court’s decision to allow the end of extraordinary measures to preserve the life of a person, who had remained in a persistent vegetative state since 1995.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 04:04 UTC

  Argentina's S. Court ratifies its authority; questioned Justice Fayt attends Tuesdays' meeting

  

  Argentine Justice Carlos Fayt showed himself publicly on Tuesday morning as he readied to attend the Supreme Court to participate of a meeting of the country's highest court with four sitting Justices, as they regularly do on Tuesdays.

• Thursday, May 14th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentine Supreme Court confirms Chief Justice and challenges Cristina Fernandez

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court has signed an “extraordinary accord” confirming the re-election of Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti to the chair until 2019, in a meeting attended by Justice Carlos Fayt who has been the target of an ongoing attack from the administration of president Cristina Fernandez, which wants the 97 year judge impeached.

• Wednesday, May 13th 2015 - 07:21 UTC

  Argentina's congress to begin evaluation of Justice Fayt's health condition

  

  Argentina's Lower House Impeachment Committee has approved a motion to begin evaluations on the health of Supreme Court Justice Carlos Fayt, in order to determine whether the judge has the physical and mental capacity to continue in his post.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 10:02 UTC

  Strong support for Supreme Court and members from Argentina's main private sector organizations

  

  Some twenty private organizations representing commerce, agriculture and other activities openly supported in a Friday release Argentina's Supreme Court and Judiciary, rejecting what was described as “hostile expressions” from some government officials.

• Friday, May 8th 2015 - 07:57 UTC

  Argentine government denies 'persecution' of Supreme Court Judges but insists in pouncing on Justice Fayt

  

  The Argentine government denied on Thursday it was 'persecuting' Supreme Court Justices but kept the pressure on by insisting the process to re-elect Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti was full of irregularities and members could have committed 'ideological falseness'.

• Thursday, May 7th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Argentine Justice shrugs off impeachment threat: “I'm used to this kind of attacks”

  

  Argentina's Justice Carlos Fayt, the oldest member of the Supreme Court (97) and questioned by the government of president Cristina Fernandez, which demands evidence of his health and mental conditions, has said through his lawyer, Jorge Rizzo that he is not concerned about a possible impeachment hearing raised against him, since 'he is used to this kind of attacks'.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentine S. Court ratifies Chief Justice; Cristina Fernandez wants to impeach a second Justice

  

  In another chapter of the ongoing dispute between Argentine president Cristina Fernández and a non-submissive Judiciary, the country's Supreme Court issued a statement on Tuesday ratifying Ricardo Lorenzetti as Chief Justice for three more years starting in 2016, following versions that he was pushing to leave the SC on yet unclear “moral fatigue” grounds.