“Acclones populares y de grupo. Sus factores determinantes y relevancia en los tribunales del Eje Cafetero"

Abstract

The Study on PUBLIC INTEREST ACTIONS AND PROCCEDINGS OVERCROWDING IN THE COURTS OF EJE CAFETERO is a research exercise developed in the year 2004, by the group of students of Seminary of COLOMBIAN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, (group 02, Fifth Semester of Law Studies), directed by Dr. Carlos Alberto Arias Aristizabal. It is an analysis developed by means of documentary techniques (revision of proceeding dossiers) and structured interviews. In the Contentious Administrative Courts of the Provinces of Caldas, Quindío, and Risaralda, the factors that have caused increase or diminution of this type of legal actions were identified, verifying if the constitutional collective rights have been regarded by public and private organizations that exert public functions or if, on the contrary, these constitutional principles are still neglected. As a main result of the analysis, we found that there is a high percentage of citizens who do not know their collective rights and the legal and social importance of the public interest actions, in the period between years 1999 and 2003. The capital cities of the departments of Caldas, Risaralda and Quindío have been the most frequently sued public organizations. The justification to this lies in the fact that the municipality, being the fundamental territorial organization of the administrative political division of the state, conveys the function of solving unsatisfied welfare needs: health, education, environmental cleaning, clean water supply, public house facilities, recreation and sports.

Keywords:

congestión de la justicia administrativa

Acciones populares

derechos colectivos

proceeding overcrowding in the courts

public interest actions

collective right

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