More than two decades of Law 38 of July 31, 2000 -Effectiveness and Current Events Más de dos décadas de la Ley 38 de 31 de julio de 2000 -Efectividad y Actualidad

Abstract

The Law 38 of July 31st of 2000  represented an advance without  precedents for the development of the Administrative Law in Panama. The lack, at that moment, of a norm of general nature that would regulate a procedure before the Institutions of Public Law, caused confusion and instability in the procedures carried out by the Administration. The organization of a normative body that, among other things, gathered the main  rectors of the administrative procedure, the dispositions over the start, processing, and completion of the procedures, the lodging of appeals, the Administrative Silence,  and the exhaustion through government channels, represented at that moment, a transformation in the acting of the Public Administration.