Most of what is written about Dominican law for foreign readers is opinion without sources. This program exists to publish the sources: what Dominican courts have actually decided, read from the decisions themselves, so that anyone weighing a purchase, a claim or a dispute can see the record before forming a view.
The firm maintains a corpus of more than 3,000 decisions from the Dominican courts where it litigates, centered on the civil courts of La Altagracia province and the eastern region. Individual studies draw on this corpus and, where a question requires it, on the wider body of published Dominican decisions.
One rule governs every figure we publish: it is read from the operative part of the decision, the section that states what the court actually ordered, not from summaries or index fields, which often reflect what a party asked for rather than what was awarded. Each published figure carries its court, date and decision number, so the citation can be checked. Party names are omitted where appropriate; the citations are public.
Each study states its own period and sample. The datasets are samples of the decisions reviewed, not claims of national completeness, and past decisions do not predict the outcome of any individual case. Each piece states its publication date.
An analysis of 75 first-instance and appellate decisions involving a safety obligation or accommodation contract and a hotel or resort. Every figure is read from the operative part of the published ruling, with the court, the date and the decision number for each.
Read the study →Why the six-month deadline so often quoted for Dominican resort injury claims is usually the wrong one, how the two-year period actually works, and the drafting trap that can shorten it.
Read the study →Causes, legal remedies and court data for pre-construction purchases in the Dominican Republic where the developer did not deliver, drawn from published decisions of the courts where these disputes are actually litigated.
Read the study →The research is not a marketing exercise; it is how the firm works. Before advising on a dispute, a purchase or an estate, we look at how the courts here have treated the same question. Publishing part of that record serves readers who will never become clients, and it keeps the firm honest.
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