%0 Journal Article %T ROL Y PODERES DEL JUEZ CIVIL: UNA MIRADA DESDE LA EFICIENCIA DEL PROCESO %A Hunter Ampuero %A Iv¨¢n %J Revista de derecho (Coquimbo) %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-97532011000200004 %X this article intends to show the close connection between judge's authority and the process efficiency. in order to achieve this goal we have begun assuming a certain conception regarding the end of the civil process based in the justice of the decision that takes as a necessary, but not enough, condition: the truth of the facts. together with said aim there are others such as a low cost process and done in a reasonable time. in the need to make these aims compatible the judge's authority plays a central role, leading the process to a fair result and in adequate timing, also allowing to freely apply the law -prior contradictory- when it has been wrongly cited, preventing the jurisdictional activity to fail for juridical reasons. %K judge's authority %K process efficiency %K just decisions %K procedural truth. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-97532011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en