La Conciliación Extrajudicial En Tiempos De Covid-19

Abstract

Faced with the crisis generated by Covid-19, the Colombian State has decided face the emergency with constitutional and legal powers, with the promise to keep the essential purposes of the State in force. Measures adopted by the States in attention and containment of the virus must have as center the full respect of Human Rights142 that is to say that the Exceptional measures taken to deal with the pandemic are compatible with international and local obligations. The above dynamic represents a great challenge for the Colombian State to respond efficiently to guarantee certain rights fundamental as access to justice. Keeping running of the administration of justice in the time of Covid-19, allows to go to equal conditions to the judicial system to advocate for integrity of the legal order and for the due protection or restoration of legitimate rights or interests143, that despite the exceptional nature of democracy and the rule of law are still alive. As expected, the Covid-19 threatens the judicial system, achieving suspend the normal provision of the judicial service, suspension of time limits judicial, with attention to urgent cases or exceptions, that with the The days of compulsory social smoothing were extended. What has made it possible to pose as a response to prevention, containment and mitigation of Covid-19, as an alternative the use of mechanisms alternative conflict resolution; such as out-of-court settlement in digital justice scenarios as an effective, efficient and economic to guarantee access to justice.