Integration and Operation

Description

The Supreme People's Court is composed of its president, vice presidents, presidents of courtrooms and other professional judges and the laymen assigned to them. All professional judges have the character of holders and amount to 48, among which are the president, four vice-presidents and the six presidents of the room, who together with the other professional judges and the laymen who are in functions make up the Plenary, which is exceptionally constituted as a courtroom to learn about the matters that the law provides that are within its competence. The structure of the highest Cuban justice body includes the Governing Council and the courtrooms. The Governing Council is composed of the president of the People's Supreme Court, the vice presidents and the presidents of the courtroom. The courtrooms are six and have a staff of professional judges, including their presidents.
President's functions

The president of the People's Supreme Court is elected by the National Assembly of Popular Power at the proposal of the president of the State Council, without subject to any term of office.

Within its main functions, it corresponds to represent and direct the Court System, as well as convene and preside over the Governing Council of the Supreme People's Court. The latter is responsible for convening and presiding over the Plenary of the judges of the People's Supreme Court when it must be constituted for certain acts of justice.

It is also a power of the president to assign, after elected, the judges of the People's Supreme Court to the corresponding courtrooms, provide the necessary measures for the internal order of the court and exercise disciplinary functions in relation to the auxiliary and administrative staff that provides service in the referred body.

The vice presidents, like the president, are elected by the National Assembly of People's Power at the proposal of the president of the State Council, also without subject to term of office. It corresponds to these to assume the functions that the president delegates in them, as well as to replace him in the cases of temporary absence or impediment, according to the order established by the Governing Council.

Organigrama

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Organization of the Courts System

Description

The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba establishes the bases on which the organization of the Cuban judicial system is based.
Regarding the judicial function, article 120 states that "The function of imparting justice comes from the people and is exercised on behalf of the Supreme Court by the People's Supreme Court and the other Courts that the law establishes."
The organic and functional independence of the courts is endorsed in article 121, when it provides that these constitute a system of state organs, structured with functional independence of any other and hierarchically subordinate to the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, as well As the highest judicial authority is exercised by the Supreme People's Court, whose decisions in this order are final, and gives its Governing Council the legislative initiative, the regulatory power and empowers it to establish a uniform judicial practice in the interpretation and application of the law.

Institutional values

Description

Sense of Justness

Independence

Impartiality

Transparency

Probity

Humanism

Honesty

Quality

Responsability

Patriotism

Mission

Description

Imparting justice and ensuring the processing and resolution of judicial matters in accordance with the law, with sense of fairness, rationality, promptness, respect for the guarantees of the parties, transparency and timely and effective compliance with the decisions, thus contributing to complete fulfillment of the rights and to compliance with the duties and obligations of natural and juridical people, the well-being of the citizenship, legal security, sustainability and development of the socialist society.

Vision

Description

To be an institution that guarantees compliance with the Constitution and laws, having executives, judges, court clerks and other workers that are creditors of prestige, authority and social recognition for their accessible, professional, transparent and reliable performance.

Privacy policies

Description

This Privacy Policy establishes the terms in which the People's Supreme Court uses and protects the information that is provided by its users when using its website. This entity is committed to the security of its users' data. When we ask you to fill in the personal information fields with which you can be identified, we do so by ensuring that it will only be used in accordance with the terms of this document. However, this Privacy Policy may change over time or be updated so we recommend and emphasize continually reviewing this page to ensure you agree with those changes.

Information that is collected

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