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• Infrastructure;
• Alternative dispute resolution methods;
• Training;
• Institutional restructuring;
• Regulation.
83.
With respect to the main measures carried out by the High Court, the following are
noteworthy:
(a)
The setting up of the Specialized Unit on Implementation of Constitutional
Reforms in Criminal Matters as the coordinating body for all matters relating to the
introduction of the new criminal justice system at the High Court, including aspects
concerned with planning, infrastructure, information and communication technologies,
training, institutional restructuring, reformulation of operating procedures, publicizing and
dissemination as well as matters of a predominantly administrative nature;
(b)
The organization of courses and the holding of forums and workshops with a
view to disseminating information on the constitutional reforms and raising awareness
among public servants at the High Court regarding the forthcoming changes;
(c)
The provision of training for public servants assigned to the Specialized Unit
in order to enhance their skills and expertise in their respective areas of responsibility so
that they can appropriately undertake the design and development of procedures for
implementing the constitutional reforms.
84.
Training is a major factor in planning and instituting the appropriate accusatorial
model for the Federal District and the commissioned public servants have accordingly
attended workshops and lectures at the National Institute of Criminal Sciences and the
Legal Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico with Chilean
and Colombian specialists sponsored by the World Bank and at the Technical Secretariat
for Implementation of the Criminal Justice System (SETEC) of the Ministry of the Interior.
Also, visits have been made to courts of federal states which are already operating this
system, such as Morelos, Mexico state, Oaxaca, Nuevo León and Chihuahua, with the aim
of learning about their experiences and obtaining details and information concerning the
models adopted.
85.
During the reporting period the Specialized Unit continued working on the
implementation process in three areas: (1) the role of enforcement judge; (2) the juvenile
justice system and (3) the accusatorial criminal justice system. In the first six months the
work focused on the first area, given that transitional article 5 of the constitutional reform
decree published on 18 June 2008 stipulated that a new social rehabilitation system was to
be established with the conferment of powers on the judicial authority in regard to the
execution, modification and duration of sentences, specifying an implementation time limit
of 3 years from publication of the reform decree, which expired on 19 June 2011.
86.
As regards the introduction of sentence enforcement judges, the High Court, through
the Specialized Unit, has carried out work on defining their functions, which will be
restricted to those of an enforcement judge within an accusatorial model. This model
establishes a specific number of judges who operate under a system of hearings to be
allocated by an administrator who will be in charge of a judicial and personnel management
system and be responsible for all tasks concerned with administrative matters and providing
assistance to judges. Proposals were accordingly put forward in the different key areas, as
outlined below.
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