Colombia's highest administrative court, annulling national decrees and administrative acts and deciding state-liability claims. It doubles as the government's legal adviser through a consultative chamber, and it is the electoral judge for national offices, which has made it central to disputes over congressional and presidential elections.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Supreme administrative court and government adviser
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Bogotá
- Established
- 1817
- Composition
- Thirty-one magistrates across five sections and a consultative chamber.
- Appointment
- Co-opted by the Council from lists prepared by the Consejo Superior de la Judicatura.
- Languages
- Spanish
Where an appeal goes next
Tutela against its rulings may be reviewed by the Constitutional Court.
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