The Electronic Test: a critique of its valuation in the Colombian legislation

Abstract

The Colombian legal system has not updated the regulations in accordance with the new technologies developed, preventing the positive and objective progress that can be generated in the evidentiary field, which is why the regulation of electronic evidence is vague, simple and inconsistent. In this way, an analysis of the norms, laws, decrees and jurisprudence that defines, understands and relates the concept of electronic proof, electronic document and data message was carried out, to perform in this way the accuracy of each of these concepts, establish the relevant assessment of this type of evidence and the criticism to differentiate each one of them; taking into account the ingredients of which the electronic test must be enjoyed.