Decreto 806 de 2020, el uso de la tecnología en los procesos judiciales en Colombia = Decree 806 of 2020, the use of technology in judicial processes in Colombia

Abstract

The Decree 806 of 2020 in Colombia was issued within the framework of the pandemic generated by Covid-19 and forced the legal community to migrate to virtuality in judicial processes, thus configuring a true E-Justice by force and form untimely. Due to the strong need of access to digital justice, this norm left out several considerations that ended up affecting the fundamental rights of the procedural subjects in judicial and administrative procedures; In addition, the litigants were not prepared or trained to migrate quickly to a digital justice system, which generated different controversies in the medium.

Consequently, this monograph focuses on providing an analysis of the Decree 806 of 2020, verifying whether its permanence over time is possible and advisable, as well as highlighting the virtues of the use of technology in judicial processes in Colombia.