Gobierno de los jueces : poderes probatorios del juez en el procedimiento civil.

Abstract

This paper addresses the judicial power behind the evidence on the civil procedure, through which analyses the role of the judge in all the history, his relationship with the principles of court procedure, also with the contribution of the parties to the proceeding, the difference between the active judge and the passive one, the arguments in favor and against the evidential powers of the judges, to conclude with the actual conception of the judge materialized in the Ecuadorian legislation, how does he directs the process as the guarantee of the parties rights and the representative of the government ,and if his development in the Civil Procedure is enough to achieve justice in it. Besides this, we can find the topic of evidence ex officio established, and why it is so important for the judge to compromise with the adequate development of the process to achieve the ideal of justice.