Spain

CEPEJ Member: Juan Fernando ARMENGOT IBORRA

Ministry of Justice

Spain - European Cyberjustice Network members (ECN)

Rafael REBOLLO BELLO
Directorate General for Digital Transformation of the Administration of Justice
Susana DE VINCENTE MAYOR
Directorate General for Digital Transformation of the Administration of Justice

National Correspondent

Juan Fernando ARMENGOT IBORRA
Ministry of Justice

Pilot Court

Madrid Commercial Court No 7
José VELA PÉREZ
Judicial Counsellor

Evaluation Exercise

Events

Translations of CEPEJ documents (if available):

Time management checklist (translated in Spanish)

Links to relevant Institutions

Resources

Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)
Case-law of the higher court/s
- Poder Judicial
- Tribunal Constitucional
Other documents (e.g. forms)
- Ministerio de Justicia
- Ministerio Fiscal

Recent developments in the judicial field

Cooperation programme "Promoting cyberjustice in Spain through change management" (June 2020 – September 2021)
Cooperation programme "Promoting CyberJustice in Spain through change management and improvement of data collection" (November 2018 - January 2020)
The General Council of Spanish Bars has been awarded the Crystal Scales of Justice Prize with the initiative concerning Online legal aid: Better solutions for people’s rights (in French and English / in Spanish) (16 October 2014)

For a long time now, a basic consensus has existed in Spain on the need for a modernising boost to our justice system. The idea is to bring in structural changes in the organisation and operation of their courts of law. These changes would enable the courts to reap full advantage of being endowed with more resources leading to greater efficiency. As from 1st January 2010, that qualitative change in the structure of justice cames about with the implementation of the new judicial office model, a key element for meeting public demand for a justice system that is flexible, modern and efficient. The Act on procedural reform that has created the new judicial office was unanimously approved, and this is a particularly important and significant fact because such a broad, solid support guarantees the stability and success of such a transformation of major importance in the day-to-day running of the Administration of Justice (New judicial office modernisation of justice).