Entrance to one of the Provincial Court buildings

And the thing is that in the Provincial Court of Madrid there are 17 judges missing (8 in the civil sections and 9 in the penalty sections) for its functioning to be optimal; that is, so that all the civilian sections had 5 and 6 in the penal section. In this sense, the president of the Provincial Court of Madrid considers that there is a poor distribution of the judicial staff. “There are territories that need a greater number of judges and there are territories that could function with a smaller number .”



Another of the problems detected is the high level of litigation in Spain, especially in Madrid. In his opinion, “ there is litigation that does not respond to a legitimate interest. There is such a possibility Cayman Island WhatsApp Number of appeals, such procedural complexity, that artificial litigation is generated that does not respond to true interests. In addition to increasing the staff, measures must be implemented to reduce litigation so that judges can focus on what is important. Also resorting to alternative conflict resolution mechanisms,” says González. In this sense, he considers that the procedural complexity is such that “a lawyer who wants to hinder the development of a procedure has many resources to do so.”







The report of the Prosecutor's Office, presented just a few days ago, on the occasion of the opening of the judicial year, contemplates that in 2022 more than half of the charges scheduled in criminal courts (53%) and 47% in the Provincial Courts. Juan Pablo González considers a figure like this excessive and worrying and indicates that the rate of suspensions in the Court is 15-20% . Sometimes, he explains, suspensions are inevitable but, on other occasions, it may be due to an organizational deficiency, he points out.