Evidentiary value of electronic invoices
In 2011, in resolving the contradiction of decisions between different collegiate circuit courts, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation issued the jurisprudence entitled: “INVOICES. PROBATORY VALUE BETWEEN WHO ISSUED THEM AND WHO ACQUIRED THE GOODS AND SERVICES”, in which it is argued that the invoice is a private document […]
DECREE IMPLEMENTING THE NATIONAL CIVIL AND FAMILY PROCEDURES CODE
As previously announced, last June 7, the Decree implementing the National Civil and Family Procedures Code (“CNPCF”) was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. Throughout its 1,191 articles distributed among 10 books, the CNPCF reduces procedural formalities and favors orality, which implies the simplification of procedures to guarantee access to justice in […]
New National Civil and Family Procedures Code
For several years there has been a need to unify judicial procedures at a national level. This was not only requested by attorneys, but also by the parties themselves in the trials and even by the judges and their staff as they realized that the judicial lag was increasing every year. Through the Decree […]
The fundamental right to one’s own image
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has developed a doctrine in which it recognizes the right to one’s own image as a fundamental right derived from human dignity, a concept expressly mentioned in Article 1 of the Constitution. According to the Supreme Court, human dignity is the basis for all other fundamental rights, […]
Measures provided for in the Securities Market Law to prevent a hostile takeover of a stock exchange stock corporation
The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico has stated that the control of a stock corporation “can be actualized by the holding of a certain patrimonial power or by a power of managerial (administrative) direction”, and held that the plurality of types of control can be classified, depending on its cause […]
The summons as the first essential formality of a jurisdictional process
Our legislation contemplates a series of requirements that have the purpose of guaranteeing the right to a hearing and due process. In this way, the governed are not left in a state of defenselessness in the face of proceedings involving the exercise of the punitive power of the State.
Measures announced by the SCJN for the period from June 1 to 30
In accordance with General Agreements 3/2020, 6/2020 and 7/2020 issued during the months of March and April 2020, the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (“SCJN”) decided to decree certain measures in order to mitigate the risks associated with the COVID-19 disease, among which are to declare the days from March […]
Jurisdiction by amount of the Mexico City Courts in commercial disputes
Articles 59, 104 and 105 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary of Mexico City contain the provisions that determine the competence of the jurisdictional bodies of such federal entity – Civil Courts of Written Process, Civil Courts of Oral Process and Small Claims Civil Courts – to hear civil and commercial matters. In this […]
The Council of the Federal Judiciary announces the new measures to be followed by the federal courts from May 6 to 31, 2020.
By means of General Agreements 8/2020 and 9/2020, the Plenary of the Federal Judiciary Council announced the measures to be observed during the period from May 6 to 31, 2020, which were adopted with the purpose of reestablishing the activities of the organs of the Federal Judiciary in the context of the sanitary contingency generated […]
Suspension of jurisdictional activities is extended
By resolutions adopted in sessions held on April 13, 2020, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, the Council of the Federal Judiciary, the Federal Court of Administrative Justice and the Council of the Judiciary of Mexico City, decided to extend the suspension of jurisdictional activities that had originally been set until April 19, […]