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00:00But the character of the human being and the essence of life is to always go forward,
00:14to always want to improve the life and quality of life of people.
00:21And the axis of justice is to transverse human development in all aspects,
00:27from the necessary regulations in the economic area,
00:31which are so essential for the development of humanity,
00:36to those essential and basic services such as health, education, security,
00:42which are so important for the development of society.
00:48In more than two decades, the penal code of the Dominican Republic has been in force.
00:56There are advances, but there are also challenges.
00:59Just as it would not be objective not to recognize the advances,
01:03it would also not be honest not to recognize that the justice sector,
01:07that the justice system, has important transformations.
01:11And these transformations have to do with facilitating the quality of access to justice.
01:20And here I echo something that the United Nations has said,
01:25which is that access to justice is not simply going to a court.
01:31Access to justice has attributes, and these attributes are enunciated,
01:39although perhaps not everyone agrees,
01:43but in general terms, in an indisputable aspect,
01:46such as the compliance of a reasonable deadline,
01:49which is a guarantee of effective and timely access to justice for all parties,
01:57not just for one party.
01:59Access to justice is also a guarantee to society
02:03that the justice system works, that there is an answer.
02:07And many times the answers are not only positive for the criminal organ,
02:11the answers also have to be given in a timely manner
02:15for the person charged with a crime.
02:19And from there, one of those huge challenges that we have as a justice system
02:24is to improve that quality in access to justice.
02:29Just as something I read a few years ago that struck me,
02:35I confess it, and it is that they said that lawyers are so structured
02:40that we are one of the professions with the least change.
02:44Because lawyers spend 5 or 6 years theorizing change,
02:49while engineers are given to plan and structure change,
02:54and administrators and lawyers theorize change.
02:59And finally, paraphrasing a phrase that an expert in administration said,
03:06that a camel is a horse designed by a board of lawyers,
03:13because they began to say, no, we have to add something more,
03:17but something is missing.
03:19And that is where the camel comes from,
03:21when a board of lawyers tries to design a horse.
03:26This is because in the actors of the justice system,
03:30the justice system is not only the responsibility of the judicial power.
03:35The justice system is the responsibility of all of society in general,
03:40but more than those who choose a profession,
03:44a profession, such as public defenders and prosecutors,
03:49which is so delicate and important,
03:53and its delicacy and importance lies, essentially,
03:58in the fact that we treat people's lives positively or negatively
04:04when they make a decision.