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 (Organismo Judicial de Guatemala). It was created through Agreement 037/002 of the Presidency of the Judicial Branch on June 17, 2002. The main office, originally 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. In 2012 the main offices of CENADOJ were transferred to the top floor of the Center of Labor Justice (Centro de Justicia Laboral). 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. 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. The center is integrated by the following areas: Legislation and Jurisprudence: Its intent is to compile, classify, analyze and to include in the database 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. Judicial Documentation: Its intention is to take care of and to satisfy the necessities with documentary legal information (jurisprudence, legislation, indoctrinate). It is an area oriented fundamentally towards the attention of internal and external users.