Estudio de la reforma planteada en el año 2020 correspondiente a la citación en forma telemática tipificada en el artículo 55 del Código Orgánico General de Procesos y su Aplicación en la ciudad de Loja

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Abstract: The telematic court summons that was interposed in article 55 of the General Organic Code of Processes along by the reformatory law N°345 of the Official Registrybased on December 9th 2020 is such avery innovative and relatively new option. Although it ́s still a work in progress, the attention it has brought between attorneys and judgesin Loja is remarkable, and the reason it ́s because nowadays there are a lot of legal cases stucked in the summons phase, mostly by cause of impossibility in tracking down the residence of the defendant and his individuality. Due to the fact that this new method is strongly related to the new technologies applied to law matters, its accurated to discuss whether thisinteresting summons mechanism could be an effective way to prosecute legal cases that have been stalled for a significant period of timeand also to guarantee the primary principles of procedural celerity, due process and effective access to justicie, which are all included in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador.