Colombia State Council challenges judges’ pension cap
Colombia’s State Council is seeking to shield the judicial branch from the application of a Supreme Court law capping congressional pensions at $7,800 or 25 times the country’s minimum wage.
Colombia’s State Council is seeking to shield the judicial branch from the application of a Supreme Court law capping congressional pensions at $7,800 or 25 times the country’s minimum wage.
Colombia’s Supreme Court sentenced a Cali citizen to a year and a half in prison over a slanderous comment the man had left on a local news website.
Colombia’s judicial branch is divided into several sub-branches dealing with both criminal and administrative cases. The courts are either of national, regional or local character.
Judicial authorities are investigating the judge who temporarily suspended the December dismissal of the mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota after revelations regarding the judge’s excessive wealth, local media reported Thursday.
Colombia’s high courts will come with their own proposal for a pending judicial reform after the government’s attempt to upgrade the country’s clogged judiciary failed last year, reported newspaper El…
Colombia’s Inspector General may be put in his place by a slap down appeal of a citizen who earlier this month managed to suspend the IG’s dismissal and 15-year ban…
A central Colombia judge has ruled that a boss of Medellin-based crime syndicate “Oficina de Envigado” can serve his 21-year sentence at home, local media reported Thursday.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General on Thursday lashed out at the country’s Inspector General who had said rulings by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights are not binding.
Colombia’s former Prosecutor General on Tuesday sent an open letter to Congress, calling for the resignation of the country’s Inspector General after his controversial decision to dismiss the mayor of…