PATRIMONIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE COLOMBIAN STATE FOR THE JUDICIAL DELAY DURING THE QUARANTINE DUE TO THE COVID–19 PANDEMIC

Elizabeth Ramírez Llerena, V. Bleidis, Quintana Pérez, Martha C. Benítez, María de la Encarnación Reyes, Nohelia Diaz Correa, Laura Hernández Dáger

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the exercise of jurisdictional power in Colombia during remote work at home conducted by the judicial offices of Cartagena during the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020. This article establishes if the Colombian State is incumbent on any patrimonial responsibility for the judicial delay during the quarantine. This article describes a new method in socio-legal research in Colombia, based on quantitative analysis, which allows determining through the application of surveys to users of the administration of justice that the state activities developed in the branches of the Colombian public power can generate patrimonial responsibility. Using the quantitative analysis of the surveys, the authors illustrate with the proposed method of statistical analysis that the application of surveys allows us to infer that in the administration of justice in Cartagena, 67% have perceived many changes in the notification of procedural stages with the notification application by email, contemplated in Decree 806 of 2020. The evaluation of the new method's efficiency is confirmed by calculating 150 surveys applied to the administration users, and the research results complement studies conducted by other authors in 2020-2021. The novelty and scientific contribution point to applying Cloud Computing using information and communication technology to conduct legal proceedings, and the conclusions pointed to developing new studies on the unjustified delay in compliance with the procedural terms and jurisdictional proceedings.

 

Keywords: Administration of Justice, Access to Justice, Judicial Delay, COVID-19, Remote Work at Home

 

DOI:https://doi.org/10.35741/issn.0258-2724.58.1.16


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