Las casas de justicia

Abstract

"The houses of justice were constituted as an initiative to guarantee access to justice, instituted in Article 229 of the Political Constitution as a fundamental right, its main purpose was to promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts, increase the coverage of justice services and concentrate the offer of justice services in the territory. The present investigation will focus on studying its organization and the articulation of the entities that attend them, taking into account that these are conceived as inter-institutional centers of orientation, reference and attention to facilitate the access of the population of a certain locality to justice services formal and non-formal in which users find comprehensive, free and centralized, responsive and timely response to their concerns and requirements. Bearing in mind that this process began twenty-two years ago with the house of Justice of Ciudad Bolívar, inaugurated in 1995, thanks to the disposition of the Ministry of Justice and Law, which leads the National Program of Houses of Justice through the Directorate of Alternative Methods of Conflict Resolution, and that throughout the national territory there are 108 houses of Justice that have been providing an articulated service with the institutions that must operate in those institutions. Despite the progress, there have been difficulties regarding the presence of entities of the National order that are indispensable to achieve the adequate provision of the service, such as Legal Medicine, which is an indispensable entity for the problems that arise both in the Police Stations of Family as in the ICBF. That is why the presence of entities that have interference in the processes of other entities is essential in order that the attention is not fragmented"