Smart lawyer or sloppy court?
THE PRELIMINARY hearing for the Financial Pacific case, rescheduled for Monday, December 18 was suspended once again leaving observers to...
Month: December 2017
OPINION: National Assembly treason?
The ratifications of Zuleyka Moore and Ana Lucrecia Tovar de Zarak as magistrates of the Supreme Court could be undone...
Judge sends ominous Crime Pays message
The return of a mansion, bank accounts a Porsche, a yacht, silverware and other symbols of wealth to a former...
New judges-opportunity or deja vu?
As Panama’s National Assembly readies itself to discuss the appointment of the two new Supreme Court judges designated by the...
Judicial appointees independence questioned
THE RATIFICATION by the National Assembly of at least one of President Varela’s picks as a replacement for outgoing Supreme...
Panamas artful dodger heads home again
FORMER vice-president Felipe Pipo Virzi’s, long drawn out battle to avoid justice took another ponderous step sideways on Friday afternoon,...
Tourist robbery and rape earns15 years for three
JUSTICE was swift for three men charged with robbing and raping a woman tourist in Santa Fe in the north...
WORLDVIEW: Rule For the Few, By the Few
By Rachel Kleinfeld In the year since President Donald Trump took office, cries of kleptocracy have grown louder. Rachel Kleinfeld...
Opposition aims to block court nominees
PANAMA’S Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) is aiming to block the appointment of the executive's nominees for seats in the Supreme...
OPINION: Panama Spring in Supreme Court
The Executive Branch yesterday nominated two brave women of faultless trajectory as magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice. Ana Lucrecia...
Globe trotting judge gets groupie photo
José Ayú Prado, the globe-trotting president of the Supreme Court attended the launch of the new Spanish Academy Panispánico legal...
OPINION: Outrageous generosity
The effective penalty and collaboration agreement signed by the Anticorruption Discharge Office with the defense of Rafael Guardia Jaén - and...
