News of court system

Inter-American court to hear first abortion rights case

22-03-2023 11:26 Woman, identified as "Beatríz", squaring off against El Salvador for case on the legality of denying access to abortion services

And that reminds me…

Court between a rock and a hard place

21-01-2023 06:56 Both the 1947 and the 2002-2003 purges accomplished their missions but we may well be taking current events too seriously if we expect a similar outcome now.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Ricardo Lorenzetti: ‘We’ve passed from a democracy of projects to vetocracy’

15-07-2022 08:00 Supreme Court justice discusses his experience in and the future of the Judiciary, ecology and the environment, and the problems facing Argentina and the wider world.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

And that reminds me

Supreme Courts are caught, not tort

29-04-2022 17:03 Phobias against independent justice are far from being a uniquely Kirchnerite vice.

by Michael Soltys

#1F MARCH

Inside the Kirchnerite march on the Supreme Court

03-02-2022 16:46 Representatives of the ruling party and trade unionists sympathetic to the government were present. The reaction of the opposition.

SUPREME COURT

Names in the frame circulate as Supreme Court deadline passes

03-12-2021 23:26 Deadline to nominate new justice for nation’s highest tribunal passes without fanfare; Government drawing up list of potential replacements for Elena Highton de Nolasco, but recognises process will take time.

by Ariel Stemphelet

Courts

Argentina's justice system to probe Myanmar war crimes claims

30-11-2021 08:54 Argentina's justice system will investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Myanmar military against that country's Rohingya minority under a court ruling upholding the principles of universal jurisdiction.

A (very) short interview

Horacio Rosatti on Lorenzetti, Macri and Alberto Fernández

25-10-2021 13:49 New Supreme Court chief justice spoke briefly to Noticias magazine, responding to ex-president Mauricio Macri’s regret over having nominated him as “the best praise I ever had as a judge.”

by Carlos Claá

SUPREME COURT

Vacancy opens on Supreme Court as Highton de Nolasco resigns bench

09-10-2021 12:40 Supreme Court justice resigns from nation’s highest tribunal in letter to President Alberto Fernández. Highton de Nolasco, who was sworn in back in 2004, will leave her post on November 1.

SUPREME COURT

Elena Highton de Nolasco resigns from Supreme Court

05-10-2021 16:15 Supreme Court justice resigns from nation’s highest tribunal in letter to President Alberto Fernández. Highton de Nolasco, who was sworn in back in 2004, will leave her post on November 1.