In Colombia, justice has arrived within the Metaverse! | Dentons

(Administrative Court docket of Magdalena Workplace 1, Submitting No. 47-001-2333-000-2020-00014-00, Order resolving request for a listening to within the Metaverse, 10/02/2023)

On February 10, 2023, the Administrative Court docket of Magdalena, below the presidency of Decide Maria Victoria Quiñones, favorably resolved a request to carry a listening to within the Metaverse, throughout the framework of a direct reparation course of. In this regard, the Workplace acknowledged that holding a listening to by immersive applied sciences such because the Metaverse doesn’t entail a violation of the due means of the events. Quite the opposite, the Workplace argues the next:

The usage of the sort of immersive know-how goals to make present procedural traits efficient, because it permits the presence of the identical digital house, even when individuals are bodily in one other place, with out leaving apart the procedural ensures and the rules of digital justice (Administrative Court docket of Magdalena Workplace 1, Order of February 10, 2023).

The request, which was made by the plaintiff (the Unión Temporal de Servicios Integrados y Especializados de Tránsito y Transporte de Santa Marta – SIETT), was additionally accepted by the defendant (the Nationwide Police and the Ministry of Protection) and by the Public Ministry’s Workplace.

For the belief of the listening to, a collaborative digital utility was made accessible. Interested events might take part within the listening to in two methods: 1) utilizing specialised digital actuality glasses that permit an immersive expertise or; 2) by the net utility, akin to becoming a member of a video name. Individuals taking part immersively might accomplish that by an “avatar,” or a digital character representing an internet consumer that may be personalized with particular bodily and behavioral traits.

The listening to was held on Wednesday, February 15 at 9:00 am and it’s accessible by the next link.