Superior Council of the Judiciary

The Superior Council of The Judiciary of Colombia was the highest court of appeal on matters of the administration of justice. Organically the Superior Council of the Judiciary is divided in two rooms, diverse in their origin and functions, this way the jurisdictional one disciplinary that is in charge of the investigation of the behavior of the judicial officials and of the lawyers and of settling the competition conflicts, and the office worker, with origin in the same judicature, in charge of assisting the organizational necessities and of management of the judicial branch, liberating the judges of this load that it distracted them of their characteristic function of imparting justice and overcoming the outline of it guides and the government's administration.

The Administrative Room this integrated by six elected magistrates for eight-year periods, one for the Constitutional Court, two for the Supreme Court of Justice and three for the Council of State; the Jurisdictional Disciplinary Room, seven magistrates conform it, also chosen for an eight-year period, but for the National Congress, that is to say, the Camera and the Senate in plenary session, of ternas sent by the government.

The constitutional and legal régime of CSJ of Colombia that it began works March 1992, 15 this foreseen mainly in that prepared by the articles 254 at 257 of the Political Letter and in the Title IV of the Law 270 of 1996, statutory call of the administration of justice, L.E.A.J.La main characteristic of this entity is that it is a constitutional organism created directly by the Political Letter and developed in legislative dispositions of special range; in this sense the figure is adopted according to which to the interior of the judicial branch organs and organisms can exist with artificial complete configuration, that is to say, with patrimonial autonomy, presupuestal, financial and administrative.

In any event, the Constitution declares that the administration of justice is a public function of constitutional range and that its decisions are independent, and he/she gives to C.S.J. the organic same level that you/they have the discharges courts as the Supreme Court of Colombia, the Council of State of Colombia and the Constitutional Court of Colombia, but it endows it of functions, attributions, abilities and special competitions described directly by the Constitution.

Organically C.S.J. this divided in two rooms, diverse in their origin and functions, this way the jurisdictional one disciplinary that is in charge of the investigation of the behavior of the judicial officials and of the lawyers and of settling the competition conflicts, and the office worker, with origin in the same judicature, in charge of assisting the organizational necessities and of management of the judicial branch, liberating the judges of this load that it distracted them of their characteristic function of imparting justice and overcoming the outline of it guides and the government's administration.

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