The Minister of Justice is a part of the
Council of Ministers
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in Cuba, also known as the Cabinet of
Cuba
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. The Ministry of Justice of Cuba is responsible for the following functions:
* Guide and coordinate the preparation and execution of the Legislative Plan of the State and the Government.
* Participate in legal and legislative advice to the State, the
Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
and the OACE (Central Administration of the State) and other state institutions.
* Evaluate, in coordination with other bodies, agencies and institutions, the effectiveness of
legal norms.
* Promote the procedures for the review of final sentences in criminal matters, the granting of extraordinary conditional freedom, decree the expulsion of sanctioned foreigners from the national territory and cancel
criminal records
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.
* To pronounce on the validity of the legal norms.
* Direct and control technically, normatively and methodologically the exercise of notarial functions.
* Direct and control the registry policy of
public records and regulate their operation, in coordination with the corresponding agencies.
* Represent the State in the legal procedures of partition, adjudication, segregation, recasting and registration of
real estate
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.
* Create and organize the "Claims Commissions" under the provisions of Law No.80 of 1996.
* Establish the technical-methodological guidelines for the legal advisors of the OACE, state institutions and entities of the cooperative and private sector.
* Regulate the services provided by the Legal Consultancy.
* Exercise the functions that the Law establishes regarding the services provided by the ONBC (collective law offices).
* Regulate the
legal assistance
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services provided by civil service societies.
* Address the legal issues arising from relations with
ecclesiastical or religious institutions.
* Guide and control the application of the policy in matters of associations and foundations.
* Represent the State before associations in which the ministry is a relationship organ.
* Direct the edition, printing and circulation of the ''Official Gazette of the Republic''.
* Promote the development of Legal Information Technology.
* Participate, with the corresponding bodies and organizations, in the dissemination of the Law and contribute to the legal formation of the people.
List of ministers (Post-1959 after the Cuban Revolution)
* Angel Fernandez Rodriguez
(1959)
* Alfredo Yabur Maluf
(1959-1972)
* Armando Torres Santrayl (1973-1979)
* Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado (1980-1983)
* Hector Garcin y Guerra
(1983)
* Ramon de la Cruz Ochoa
(1983)
* Mercedes Castro
(1983)
* Juan Escalona Reguera (1983-1990)
* Carlos Amat Fores (1990-1996)
* Roberto Diaz Sotolongo (1996-2007)
* Maria Esther Reus Gonzalez
(2007–2018)
st female* Oscar Manuel Silveira Martínez (2018-present)
External links Official Gazette of the Republic
See also
*
Justice ministry
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in ...
*
Politics of Cuba
Cuba has had a socialist political system since 1959 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a Marxist–Leninist state. The present Constitution of Cuba, which was passed in a 2019 referendum, also ...
References
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Justice ministries
Government ministries of Cuba