Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) Ministry, since almost 60% of the courts exceed the established load in terms of the entry of matters.
In a press conference on the occasion of the presentation of the 2022 Judicial Report -which for the first time allocates a section to analyze the workload of the courts of the archipelago-, Lorenzo has indicated that these cuts even imply the suppression of reinforcements assigned to the most crowded courts.
They have reported that the resolution of the Ministry of Justice of June 16 is due to budgetary problems, as they have been informed, and affects courts in towns such as Telde and San Bartolomé de Tirajana, in Gran Canaria, and Arona, Granadilla and Santa Cruz. , in Tenerife, among others and will be analyzed this Friday by the Government Chamber of the TSJC.
According to the study carried out and included in the Report, of the 211 judicial bodies on the islands, 124, that is to say 58.7%, exceed the workload bar (130% indicator) from which the Ministry of Justice He sees it appropriate to create new units, which is why he has considered the figure “shocking”.
He has said that the situation of work overload in the civil courts is “especially worrisome”, where the entry of cases exceeds 190% and in five parties it exceeds more than 200%, although the Mercantile courts exceed 170% of the theoretical module, and those of the Social, 160%.
The civil sections of the hearings of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas also present worrying figures, added Lorenzo, by exceeding 190% and 213%, respectively, of the module set in the entry of matters.
With regard to the TSJC, it has emphasized the workload of the Social Chamber, greater in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife headquarters, reaching more than 150% of the established entry matters, than in the of Las Palmas, which has been estimated at 136% higher than what was set.
Lorenzo has reported that this year 20 new judicial units have been requested and he estimates that at most 10 will be able to be obtained, but the reality is that some 40 would be necessary given the situation of the Canary Islands courts, he stressed.
He also recalled that last year five courts were created on the islands but three were established, and that in the 2022 Report the creation of another 10 has been considered “pressing”.
The president of the TSJC has remarked that the needs of these bodies cannot depend on a proportional rule in attention to the legal population in the territories, a formula that he has described as “simplistic”, since, in his opinion, they must also respond to the litigation rate, to the specificities of each community and, in the case of the Canary Islands, to the insular fact. EFE