The head of the ordinary judiciary, acting principally as a court of cassation: it reviews whether the law was correctly applied rather than retrying facts. Since the 2010 Constitution it shares constitutional space with the Tribunal Constitucional, and judicial discipline and administration have passed to the Consejo del Poder Judicial.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Court of cassation
- Jurisdiction
- Cassation review of civil, commercial, criminal, labour, tax and administrative judgments, and first-instance jurisdiction over senior officials.
- Seat
- Santo Domingo
- Established
- 1908
- Composition
- Sixteen judges sitting in a plenary and in three chambers — civil, criminal, and labour, tax and administrative.
- Appointment
- Appointed by the Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura following public evaluation.
- Languages
- Spanish
Where an appeal goes next
Constitutional questions may reach the Tribunal Constitucional; otherwise cassation is final.
Filing at this court
- Recurso de casación
- Within 30 days of notification of the judgment, filed at the Secretaría General
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