32 Judges moved to Ancon speed up backlog

At least 32 judges who provide Oral Judgment functions and Compliance Courts of the Accusatory Penal System (SPA), based in Plaza Ágora, have been transferred to a new unit in the district of Ancón.

The movements were made by the Judicial Branch based on the need to attend the hearings since at the SPA headquarters in Plaza Ágora more than 15 hearing rooms were not enough to attend the growing number of hearings. For this reason, six rooms were set up to hold trials and another four for compliance rooms in the former headquarters of the Boston School, in Balboa.

The new rooms will not only impact the trial and compliance phases, but also the guarantee trials stage since the spaces previously occupied by trial judges in Plaza Ágora will be reassigned for guarantee judges.