Peru collapsed justice system

Abstract

Justice in Peru is fully collapsed. Changes in procedural and substantive laws have been usually introduced to solve this problem. Notwithstanding, the result reached has not been positive because laws enacted have produced outcomes unforeseen, and often undesirable. This is the case of the justice administration that has been worsened due to the bad implementation of the Civil Procedure law, the new Criminal Procedure Law, the new Labour Procedure Law, among others. One of the main problems has been the delay in the resolution of lawsuits before the Power Judicial which has spurred corruption at different levels of the judicial administration. Current President of the Power Judicial, Mr. Duberli Rodriguez, has stated that que the main problem is not the corruption but the slowness of procedures. He has also said that the improvement of this situation could left everybody satisfied, so corruption would go away once government invest in improving judicial performance. According to the report recently launched by Non-Governmental Organization Proetica, 48% of the Peruvian people consider that the Power Judicial is corrupted, even above the Congress and the Police. Likewise, the Global Barometer of Corruption, a survey endorsed by International Transparency points out that 32% of the people admitted paying a bribe to judges. The same survey indicates that 70% of the people distrusts the judiciary. As the result of the survey, Peru is perceived to be highly corrupt among Latin American Countries. This paper shows the efforts made by some countries to reduce the delay in the judicial process which could help to guide reforms in Peru.