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Timestamp: 2014-03-11 02:37:58
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Matched Legal Cases: ['ART. 170', 'ART. 172', 'ART. 176', 'ART. 177', 'ART. 179', 'ART. 180']

ART. 170. Justice is administered in the name of the people, and its dissemination shall be free throughout the national territory. Judges and prosecutors are independent in the exercise of their functions and owe no obedience except to the law.
Concerning the Supreme Tribunal of Justice ART. 172. The Supreme Tribunal of Justice shall be composed of the chambers that the law may determine.
ART. 176. In the appointment of magistrates of the provincial supreme court, three procedures shall be observed: the first, the concept of promotion by strict seniority from the tower category; the second, by means of a competitive examination among those who occupy the immediately inferior category; and third, by means of practical and theoretical competitive examinations given to persons able to compete, judicial
officials, and public attorneys, as well as lawyers not over sixty years of age. Practicing lawyers must meet the same requirements as are necessary for being appointed Magistrates of the Supreme Tribunal.
ART. 177. Appointment of judges shall be made upon two procedures: one, by strict seniority in the lower category, and the other by competitive examination in which officials of the same and of the lower category may take part. In the first procedure to which this article and the preceding one refer, the vacancy shall be filled a transfer, if there should be an official in an equivalent category who applies for the
position, reserving entry or promotion for positions that definitely remain available in the category.
ART. 179. In cases of competitive examination, the transfers and promotions shall necessarily be granted to the official who applies for the position and who is in the same category or the one immediately inferior, and who obtains the best grade. The Supreme Tribunal shall establish the standard of grading by categories, verifying the said grading semi-annually with exclusive consideration of the ability, judgment, merit,
and judicial activity of each individual.
ART. 180. Magistrates of the Supreme Tribunal shall be appointed by the President of the Republic from a panel proposed by an electoral college of nine members. These shall be designated: four by the plenum of the Supreme Tribunal from its own body, three by the President of the Republic, and two by the faculty of law of the University of Havana. The last five must meet the qualifications required of Magistrates of the
Supreme Tribunal, and those designated by the faculty of law may not belong to the same.