:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/EIN5LWYMARFMPBTG6YKWOOY6J4.jpg "This is how the first legal hearing was held in the metaverse in Colombia")
On the morning of this Wednesday, February 15, under the leadership of Office 01 of the Administrative Court of Magdalena, THE Initial audience in the metaverse. This was a lawsuit against the Ministry of Defense and the National Police. The judicial assembly was chaired by the magistrate of this court, Maria Victoria Quinones Trianawho explained what is behind this new method to perform races like this.
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“This is one of the first auditions that is done in this environment (…) the main foundation that we had is that the metaverse works, fundamentally, through a constant exchange of data messages because it uses means electronic, in this case optical, to generate the information that is accompanies in this environment or virtual“said the magistrate. “By virtue of the two principles that we have always inculcated, respected and emphasized in these classes of audiences, the principle of functional equivalence and the principle of technological neutrality, they are the ones who basically do the legal elaboration of this”, he added. added. Quiñones at the start of the proceedings.
As the magistrate explains the metaverse It is a technological tool that can facilitate access to the administration of justice. “The use of information technology in the development of judicial procedures has the essential objective of facilitating and speeding up access”, he reiterated. To carry out this procedure, in which it was intended to resolve the lawsuit regarding the collection of fines in Santa Marta, the platform was used Horizon work rooms by Meta. The magistrate turned to the Chat GPT artificial intelligence tool.
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The Administrative Court of Magdalena considers that, “Since Statutory Law 270 of 1996, it has been established that actions taken in legal proceedings must be oral with the exceptions established by law, also taking into account new technological advances.
It should be noted that the person who requested that the hearing proceed via the metaverse was the plaintiff in the case: the Temporary Union of Santa Marta Integrated and Specialized Transit and Transportation Services (SIETT). This company is responsible for collecting traffic fines imposed by the Police in the capital of Magdalena. The petition was supported by the respondent, which is the National Police, and the Attorney General’s Office.
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“The use of this type of immersive technology aims to make current procedural trends effective, since they allow the presence of the same virtual spaceeven when people are physically in another location, without leaving aside procedural safeguards and principles of digital justice,” he said of the process. Maria Victoria Quinones.
“Office recalls that this first hearing, which will be held in a virtual reality environment, which, as already explained, is legally and jurisprudentially valid: it will respect the same rules provided for a face-to-face or remote hearing, taking into account the provisions of the article 180 and 186 of law 1437 of 2011, Articles 103 and 107 of the CGP and Law 527 of 1999guaranteeing fundamental rights in the digital environment of procedural subjects,” he stressed.
For the public, those involved had an avatar and used augmented reality glasses Oculus. “However, if you don’t have the augmented virtual reality glassesit should be specified that This does not prevent anyone You can join the said meeting using the web application on your computer, as if it were a video call,” the office pointed out,
Remember that this is not the first time that this method has been used to move processes forward. On January 19, Office 01 of the Magdalena Administrative Court held a working meeting in the metaverse.