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Weekly Report - 8 September 2011 (WR-11-36)
ECUADOR: Government decrees judicial “state of emergency”
On 5 September the government of President Rafael Correa issued a decree (872) to allow it to keep the judicial system running while simultaneously reforming it. The government’s ambitious judicial reform proposal is the first time, at least in the past 50 years, that a Latin American government has tried to overhaul a national judicial system from top to bottom. Bolivia’s judicial reform, which is also underway, covers just the top courts.
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