Technology and orality in Peruvian Civil Procedure

Abstract

This essay initiates by doing a brief historical account of the use of technology and marches and countermarches of the orality in Peruvian civil procedure, showing that Peruvian Judiciary was pointed to imple-ment two different models: the electronic judicial process and the orality model in the civil procedure. However, after the arrival of COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing and lockdown ordered by Peruvian central government, Executive Conseil of Judiciary (CEPJ) decided to accelerate the implementation of both of the models in the District Courts of the country, but conditioning the electronic process model to a previous migration to the orality model. This essay puts a question to this decision, offering a critique to the orality model as it was adopted by CEPJ and proposing that electronic process should preferred than that model.