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Short notes on Chilean litigation and on working with its data. Written for lawyers and for whoever runs a legal team.
The most common confusion isn't with the Code of Civil Procedure. It's with the Labor Inspectorate (Dirección del Trabajo), where Saturday is a non-business day. In labor court, Saturday counts.
A dismissal lawsuit doesn't ask for one severance payment. It asks for six or seven distinct things, each grounded in its own article, its own formula, and its own cap. This is a walk through the ones that show up almost every time.
Some cases exist, move forward, and run deadlines without ever showing up in the public case lookup of the Poder Judicial (the Chilean courts). What restricted cases are, why they don't show up, and who can see them.