Disclosing Justice
DPLF launched this report on access to judicial information in 10 countries of Latin America at the 5th International Conference of Commissioners for Information, held in Auckland, New Zealand, on November 29, 2007.
DPLF´s executive director Eduardo Bertoni presented this new publication, which covers the principal laws and regulations on access to judicial information in ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama, and Uruguay.
This set of countries was selected in order to demonstrate the diversity in how access to judicial information is regulated in the region. While some countries have no specific laws on access to judicial information, others do, but their application to the judicial branch varies from one to the next. We also see very different levels of maturation in the discussions around the guarantees necessary to ensuring this right.
The study, carried out by DPLF, was commissioned by the Open Society Institute/Justice Initiative as part of its project, “Access to Information: Best Laws and Practices.”
Disclosing Justice is available in English only. Click here to download it in PDF format.