La función conciliadora en la audiencia previa: presupuestos, facultades judiciales y límites

This article focuses on one of the functions of the previous hearing, the conciliatory function, and on the basis of the brevity of the legal regulations (arts. 415 and 428.2 LEC). We try to analyze aspects on which the legislator has remainded silent or they are barely regulated. In particular, the requirements so that there could be conciliation. Between the judicial powers in the conciliation we can list the faculty of verifying the substistence of the litigation, the power to urge the parties to reach an agreement, the power to focus the controversy and suspend actions to bring about an agreement between the parties. And as limits the power to reconcile point does not alter the claims of the parties and the facts alleged by the parties, not to impose an agreement, does no prejudge the issue, and not to use coercitive techniques.