Sala IV

The Legislative Assembly next week will discuss and vote on a second and final round of debate a bill that will allow research on human subjects in Costa Rica.

On Tuesday morning, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court bounced a request for guidance back to lower family courts in the latest move to decide the legality of same-sex civil unions in Costa Rica.

Trade agreement between Europe and Central America will enter info force Aug. 1.

Those failing to pay corporate taxes will be blocked from doing business starting Feb 1.

The San José-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a ruling Thursday night against the government of Costa Rica condemning its ban on in vitro fertilization. The court ordered the country to legalize the practice, which was outlawed in March 2000 by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV.

Costa Rica’s in vitro fertilization ban challenged by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.