CUEVAS ABOGADOS JANUARY 2021

MEXICO´S JUDICIAL
REFORM

Judicial Power of the Federation

Reform Initiative CHRONOLOGY
As the Judicial Power of the Federation is faced with challenges in
matters of ethics, profesionalism, independece and impartiality of
judicial officials, and combat to nepotism and corruption, an ON OCTUBER 21, 2019, THE
institutional response has begun to occur, originated within the
Judicial Power of the Federation, which has recently adopted WORKS FOR THE JUDICIAL
internal policies in the fight against corruption and nepotism, REFORM STARTED IN THE
strengthening the judicial career and the training of personnel, as SENATE OF THE REPUBLIC.
well as improving the public defense service, with the clear
objective of raising the quality of the administration of justice and
making it accessible to everyone.
The reform initiative is broad and deep, it gives consistency and
THE REFORM INITIATIVE WAS
continuity to the policies adopted internally, and it provides the
necessary regulatory scaffolding for them to flourish. APPROVED BY THE SENATE OF
The main axes of the reform are the following: THE REPUBLIC ON NOVEMBER
The strengthening of the role of the Supreme Court as a 27, 2020.
constitutional court, allowing it to focus its energies only in
matters most relevant to the national legal order.
The establishment of regional plenaries, replacing circuit
plenaries, as organs of the Judicial Branch in charge of LATER, THE REFORM INITIATIVE
resolving the precedent contradictions in the circuits in which WAS APPROVED BY THE
they exercise jurisdiction, as well as all jurisdictional conflicts CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES ON
that arise in the country between federal jurisdictional entities.
DECEMBER 14, 2020.
The transformation of the Unitary Circuit Courts into
Collegiate Courts of Appeal, with a collegiate membership that
ensures better quality and greater certainty in its resolutions. CURRENTLY, THE INITIATIVE IS
The modification of the jurisprudence system to strengthen the BEING DISCUSSED FOR APPROVAL
precedents of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, so BY THE LOCAL LEGISLATURES.
that the constitutional doctrine that it generates frames the ONCE APPROVED IT WILL ENTER
work of the rest of the jurisdictional bodies of the country.
INTO FORCE.
It is, therefore, a comprehensive, far-reaching reform, which will
fundamentally transform the Judicial Branch of the Federation,
for the benefit of a more just society for this generation and for THERE IS, HOWEVER, NO SET DATE
those to come. FOR THIS TO HAPPEN.