Chile on Trials & Appeals & Compensation

The plaintiff filed an appeal for case law unification against the ruling of the Court of Appeals of Santiago, invoking a ruling issued by the Court of Appeals of Santiago and another...

Chile follows a civil law system strongly influenced by the Spanish and French legal systems, specifically by the Napo¬leonic Code model.

The Court's decision declared as unconstitutional the jurisdictional abilities which allowed SERNAC to directly sanction suppliers without the need to resort to a court.