Law on the Statute of the Judiciary

The 2007 judicial-reform package rebuilt the legal basis of the Haitian judiciary in a single gazette issue, and this is the first of its three laws: the statute of the judiciary, the law on the Magistrates' School (EMA), and the law creating the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSPJ). The statute governs the professional position of judges - how they are recruited and appointed, the conditions of their tenure, their advancement, and the disciplinary regime applying to them. Its preamble traces a long line of prior instruments back through the law of 6 September 1982 on the uniformisation of norms, structures, procedures and general principles of the administration. Judicial independence, and specifically the appointment and tenure of judges, has been a persistent point of institutional contention in Haiti, and this law is the text against which those disputes are argued. Published in Le Moniteur, 162nd year, No. 112, Thursday 20 December 2007.