La Distribución del distrito judicial de Villavicencio vulnera real y materialmente los derechos constitucionales de igualdad, acceso a la justicia y tutela jurisdiccional efectiva

Abstract

On May 31, 1969, the Presidency of the Republic issued Decree 900 of the same year establishing the Judicial Territorial Division of the country, among other provisions. This regulation was issued in exercise of the extraordinary powers granted to the President of the Republic by Article 20 of Law 16 of 1968 and in accordance with the concept of the Advisory Commission established by Article 21 of the same law. This Decree established how Colombian jurisdiction would be divided territorially, that is, in judicial districts and the respective judicial circuits and municipalities that comprise it; among them we find the Judicial District of Villavicencio, Decree 900 of 1969, Article 1, and Chapter XIV DEPARTMENT OF THE GOAL. INTENDENCE OF ARAUCA AND COMMISSIONERS OF GUAINIA, VAUPES AND VICHADA, which in summary establishes jurisdictionally a district that would comprise five departments of the Orinoquia, that is Meta, Vaupés, Vichada, Guainía, Guaviare and as if it were not enough three more municipalities of the department of Cundinamarca. This allows us to go deeper into the fact that this extremely wide territorial distribution of jurisdiction really and materially violates the constitutional rights of equality, access to justice and effective judicial protection, especially if we take into account that even the judicial districts distributed with small territorial extensions do not fully comply with the jurisdictional purpose of the State and the Judicial Branch.