OFF THE CUFF: Judges have time, will travel
WHILE Panama’s Supreme Court seems to be operating in reverse in handling the growing backlog of corruption cases, many of them involving ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, the Court’s Chief Justice, José Ayú Prado, has managed to find time to travel on his 25th trip since being elected.
HI latest sortie is to Germany where he headed on Sunday September 6 to attend a conference on constitutional affairs.He will be gone through September 11.
According to information from the court, Ayú Prado will meet with Ferdinand Kirchhof, vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court, Dr. Reinhard Gaier, judge of the Federal Constitution, and Mariela Morales-Antoniazzi of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
The nine Supreme Court judges have made a total of 95 foreign trips since 2012.
Judge Abel Zamorano, another regular traveler building up airmilea is in Pereira, Colombia, participate in a conference on procedural law reports La Prensa.
