CENADOJ

The Centro Nacional de Análisis y Documentación Judicial (National Center for Judicial Analysis and Documentation, CENADOJ), is a judicial-support entity located in Guatemala (Central Latin America). A government entity, it works as part of the Judicial Branch of Guatemala.

It was created through Agreement number 037/002 of the Presidency of the Judicial Branch on June 17, 2002. The facilities, located in the ground floor of the Palace of Justice, were inaugurated February 11, 2003, and the Center started functioning March 3 of that same year.

The CENADOJ is a technical body whose purpose is to support the jurisdictional activity with the pick up, selection, ordering, analysis and treatment, edition, publication and dissemination of legislative, jurisprudencial and legal doctrine information.

Specific Purposes

• To compile information to produce the statistics of the judicial sentences of the courts of the Republic, processing it to analyze the results of the jurisdictional management.
• To emit and to spread statistical information of the jurisdictional management.
• To take care of the necessities of information in the matter of jurisprudence, legislation and indoctrinates, for the support of the jurisdictional function of the magistrates, judicial judges and aids.

Structure of the CENADOJ

The Center is integrated by three Areas:

• Area of Legislation and Jurisprudence: Its intent is to compile and to classify the legal dispositions and the sentences, to process the edition, diffusion and publication of the laws, the jurisprudence and indoctrinates; as well as to maintain updated this information, in documentary and computer science means.
• Area of Judicial Documentation and Statistics: Its intention is to take care of and to satisfy the necessities with documentary legal information (jurisprudence, legislation, indoctrinate) and to catch, tabular, to process and to spread to statistical data relative to the activities of the courts and other auxiliary and administrative dependencies of the Judicial Organism, guarding by the security in the handling of the information. It is an area oriented fundamentally towards the attention of internal and external users.
• Publishing area: Its purpose is to generate the criteria necessary to guide and to coordinate the work of pick up, selection, programming, development, edition, production and distribution of publications in legal matter and other matters that are important, of interest and support so that the justice operators extend and can update the necessary knowledge for the development of their jurisdictional activity, as well as other external actors of the system.

Services

• Information on different laws is provided by phone or fax, or personally down at the Center.
• Statistical intelligence data of the jurisdictional organs of the Republic is available.
• To make the reproduction of legislation and sentences of the Supreme Court of Justice
• Providing printed and digital publications, reproduction that showcases the statistical, legal, and legislative information produced by the Center.

Publications

• Sumario del Diario de Centro América
• Resumen Mensual
• Informador Bibliotecario
• Informador Bibliotecario Mensual
• CENADOJ en Cifras
• OJ en Cifras
• Boletines Estadísticos
• Gaceta de los Tribunales
• CD with the compilation of the Gaceta de los Tribunales from 1972 till 2001.

Information available for consultation

They are had compiled more than 60,000 laws, within which Governmental Decrees of the Congress, Agreements including Ministerial Agreements, among others, considering their use, reforms and derogations. The Center also offers a digital index of laws, with a brief description of the same ones.

External links

• CENADOJ Web Site