Abstract

TORRES CALDERON, Leonardo Augusto. Reflections about the judicial congestión in the administrative Colombian courts. Estud. Socio-Juríd [online]. 2002, vol.4, n.1, pp.130-142. ISSN 0124-0579.

The jurisdiction of the contentious administrative is, nowadays congested, due to the fact that number of suits set by the users is greater than the operative capacity of the system. Courts for decongestion and the obligatory conciliation are not enough for solving the problem. To solve the congestion problem, it is necessary to take measures like: to create an additional administrative charge - an auxiliary lawyer for the most congestive administrative courts; to distribute suits more fairly; to reduce the public attention time; to create specialist judges for constitutional actions; to limit the number of appeals and consultation; to install a judicial tariff for big quantities suits; to establish in indemnity repair actions the requirement of previous direct petition to the administrative agency involved in the case; to introduce a summary procedure for less quantities affaires; to extend the sentence effects to similar cases; to confer jurisdictional faculties to secretaries, and to impose since the beginning of the procedures that the claimants lawyers show all the evidence they have in possession.

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