Abstract

VELASQUEZ POSADA, Héctor. Juridical office practices and contribution for the access to justice. Rev. Fac. Derecho Cienc. Polit. - Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2014, vol.44, n.121, pp.551-576. ISSN 0120-3886.

This is a dogmatic and critical study that aims to demonstrate that the academic juridical offices do not facilitate the access to justice for citizens, as it is the belief rooted in academic circles, inasmuch as the Constitution of 1991 commissioned this function to the Ombudsman´s Office, what fills, in this way, a gap that had been in force of the 1886 Constitution, time in which such load was really weighed on academic juridical offices by virtue of solidarity principle. On the other hand, such load can not be in head of academic juridical offices because of mechanisms absence to comply fully, since there is insufficiency on the skills that students have to carry out for such purpose in order to fulfill such task. Finally, the concept of access to justice has substantially changed because the new constitutional regime made more demanding the skill level of those who perform that task. By access to justice it can not be understood only the access to ordinary juridisctions, but it must comprise all agencies that make up Justice today, with the new jurisdictions and judges, as well as with dealings before administrative authorities in charge of managing justice and, because the Public defender concept of Act 196 of 1971 falls short to explain the circumstances that warrant the need of assistancefor access to justice.

Keywords : Access to justice; Ombudsman´s office; solidarity duty; Legal clinics; Public defender.

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