Wednesday at the National Palace, the President Michel Martelly, in the presence of President of the Court of Cassation, Me Jules Cantave, of the Minister of Justice, Me Pierre Richard Casimir and several international representatives, received from the President of the Presidential Commission on Judicial Reform, the draft of the new Code of Criminal Procedure. This project of "corpus juris", the second produced by the Commission, will be submitted to the next Parliament for ratification.

"I receive this document with the feeling that mission is being fulfilled, that of the modernization of our justice. These innovative codes introduce in Haiti of measures and concepts that are already implemented in many other countries with comparable legal system to ours. The application of their provisions will have undoubtedly budgetary implications. Finance laws will therefore be developed in order to make possible the implementation by the State of the measures provided by these codes," declared the Head of State which expressed his thanks and congratulations to the members of the Commission for their efforts in drafting this important document.

This achievement is added to the long list of initiatives undertaken by the current administration to contribute to the better functioning of the Haitian judicial system, is a new step taken by the Presidential Commission.

HL/ HaitLibre