Gaceta Judicial, the leading legal publishing house in the Dominican Republic, and the Dominican Bar Association put into circulation this past March 25 the second edition of The Procedure by Default in Civil and Commercial matters, a monograph by Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza, managing partner of Guzmán Ariza, originally published by the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in 1981.

In the event, held at the Alianza Cibaeña in Santiago, Mr. Guzmán-Ariza remarked on the obsolescence of the civil procedure statutes in the Dominican Republic and appealed earnestly for the enactment of a truly Dominican Code of Civil Procedure, based on the realities of the Dominican Republic, and for casting aside the old practice of just translating into Spanish the most recent French Code.