A judicial year that ends with the imprisonment of Cristina Kirchner, a review of the cases before the Court and an improvement in the reputation of the judiciary

After the final agreement of the Ministers of the Court of 2025, made this Tuesday, information emerged according to which, for the first time since the creation of the Supreme Court, everyone fought Records of judgments and decisions of cases. This year, 15,700 verdicts and 28,900 cases were heard, judicial sources told Clarín.

“It is clear that the figures speak of the excessive judicialization of conflicts and the number of files that reach the final instance. But they also show that, despite the surveys that speak of the poor image of the judiciary in recent years, The Company goes to court to resolve almost all of its disputes“ the sources added.

And they emphasized that “these data, even if they seem rather invisible, speak of a state power that knew how to modernize and transform internal processes in order to try to provide the response demanded by citizens.”

The court year also ends with a historical milestone: Confirmation of a former president’s conviction for corruption and compliance with the sentence. Carlos Menem had been in preventive detention for six months, but his sentence for illegally selling arms to Ecuador and Croatia was never confirmed. Cristina Kirchner, on the other hand, is serving a six-year prison sentence in the traffic case.

These statistics match The survey found that Argentine society’s trust in the judiciary increased in the second half of 2025 Compared to the first half of 2025, it rose by 2.3 points and corresponds to 10.3 percent in two years. The study also shows that of the three organizations in the justice system that earned the most trust from citizens, the Court ranked first.

“Improving citizens’ trust in Argentina’s judicial system will be consolidated through an improvement in both sub-indices. People affirm with greater intensity that they would resort to the judiciary in the event of specific conflicts, while at the same time showing greater confidence in its impartiality, efficiency, honesty and in its role as controller of political and economic power. Since ICJ measurement resumed in 2023, citizens’ trust in Argentina’s justice system has increased by almost 5 points, an improvement of 10.3%,” the report said.

The study found that “the sectors that have driven a large part of this improvement are young people, people with college/university education and the residents of CABA, who to a greater extent recognized that they would resort to the justice system in the face of property, family, labor and criminal conflicts.” It was also specified that “the highest level of trust in the judiciary is observed in criminal conflicts (83%), while the lowest level is observed in family conflicts (72%)”.

“Although trust in the judiciary in terms of impartiality, efficiency, honesty and its role in checking political and economic power never exceeded 20%, citizens’ perceptions have steadily improved,” the survey said. “The three justice system organizations that have gained the greatest trust from citizens in the second half of 2025 are: 1) the nation’s Supreme Court, 2) the law schools, and 3) the lawyers.”was pointed out.

The lawyers’ concern

For its part, the Buenos Aires Bar Association, together with the Civil Association for Equality and Justice, conducted a survey among more than two thousand lawyers registered in the city of Buenos Aires on the functioning of the judiciary, which showed that lawyers fear long procedure timess, in a national and federal justice system in which more than a third of the positions are vacant.

The President of the Public College, Ricardo Gil Lavedra, emphasized that “the enormous concern of colleagues is clear about the lack of respect of judges for the legal parameters in the regulation of fees, an aspect that the Public College strongly calls for.”

More than 40 percent of enrolled students surveyed believe that the amounts are set below, a view that is repeated across jurisdictions.

The former chambermaid who judged the dictatorship’s commanders emphasized: “Justice is very important in a constitutional democracy, the political powers must understand it and work with judges, lawyers and advocates to strengthen its proper functioning.”

For her part, ACIJ Co-Director Celeste Fernández added that “the voice of lawyers is the key to rethinking our justice system: its strengths, its weaknesses, its challenges and the areas for improvement that should be considered a priority.” “The judiciary will only be able to fulfill its mandate if it is prepared to listen to them,” he said.

Work was carried out on five thematic axes: procedural times, quality of judgments, performance of judges, regulation of professional fees and communication with courts. Two general questions were also asked about satisfaction with the judicial system and the level of independence of judges.

An important focus of the criticism was on the procedural times, 75 percent of lawyers surveyed described case processing times as “slow” or “very slow.”He attributed the delays to the inefficiency of judicial staff and organizational deficiencies within the courts. In this regard, Gil Lavedra pointed out that “there are technical solutions to this, without prejudice to the incredible failure of the executive in 40 percent of vacancies, which prevents the system from functioning.”