The CGPJ will send the Supreme Court report to Justice on the negative impact of not being able to make appointments

Submits a report from the High Court to Congress and the Senate that warns of the negative effects of not being able to make appointments

MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Permanent Commission of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has agreed this Thursday to request the Ministry of Justice to authorize the creation of 15 new positions for lawyers to support two of the Supreme Court chambers that accumulate a large number of vacancies.

The Commission, which will send the department of Pilar Llop the report of the Technical Office of the Supreme Court on the negative effects that the legal impossibility of the governing body of judges to make discretionary appointments due to being in office is causing in the functioning of the high court, specifically states that it is necessary to create eight legal positions in the Third Chamber and seven in the Fourth Chamber so that they are preferably filled by magistrates from the contentious-administrative and social jurisdictions.

The function of these lawyers would be to assist the Prosecution Sections by studying and documenting pending matters, thus allowing a greater number of sentences to be handed down. According to the report of the Technical Cabinet, only between these two chambers a total of 1,230 fewer sentences will be handed down in 2023 (570 in contentious and 660 in social).

The Permanent Commission has also approved to send to the Congress of Deputies and the Senate both its agreement and the report of the Government Chamber of the Supreme Court. As explained by the CGPJ, the report, approved on January 16, warns about the unsustainable situation that is causing in this judicial body the impossibility of filling the vacancies, which currently total 19, which represents 24 percent of the legal staff of 79 magistrates, and that in the coming months of 2023 they will reach the figure of 24 vacancies, 30.37 percent of the court staff.

It should be remembered that in January the Government Chamber of the Supreme Court unanimously agreed to ask the CGPJ to urge Congress and the Senate to provide an "immediate" solution to the "unsustainable situation" that the court is going through.

The magistrates of the Government Chamber echoed the report by the director of the Court's Technical Office - commissioned by the CGPJ itself - in which the impact of the reform that prevents the governing body of judges from making appointments was detailed. in the activity of each of the five courtrooms.

As reported by the Supreme Court at the time, the magistrates consider it necessary for Parliament to establish an "immediate remedy for this state of affairs and promote any other initiatives in order to prevent it from getting worse."

The Supreme Court warned of the "critical situation" in which the Social Chamber -with 5 vacancies in a staff of 13-- and the Contentious-Administrative Chamber -with 10 vacancies in a staff of 33- -.