Study analysis of the jurisprudential evolution of the State Council of the protection action against Judicial sentences in Colombia1 1 This article has been translated from its original version in Spanish, published in Advocatus magazine, edition number 26, dated on July 2016, titled Análisis de la evolución Jurisprudencial del Consejo de Estado sobre la

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The State Council is the head of the administrative justice in Colombia. For this, they have the same hierarchical level as the Constitutional Court (Article 116 of the National Constitution). The Constitutional Court and the State Council in Colombia are autonomous and independent public institutions of the judicial power. However, The Constitutional Court has known about the protection action against judicial sentences dictated by the State Council. Consequently, this has brought up a judicial competence conflict between the two public institutions. Nowadays, The State Council, in their last sentences, has said that it is viable to interpose the protection action against their sentences when these are trespassing fundamental rights.