Lawyers, attorneys and social graduates urge the Ministry not to wait until they have the City of Justice, for which they will submit proposals
The Cartagena Justice Board agreed on Tuesday to draw up a list of needs that can be resolved with the construction of the City of Justice. This was announced by the mayor, Noelia Arroyo, who chaired this participatory body and stressed that the Consistory will transfer the requests and proposals of different groups to the Ministry of Justice.
These groups include the Bar Association, the Bar Association, the Association of Social Graduates, the COEC, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Federation of Neighborhood Associations. All of them make up the Table together with the municipal political groups (PP, Cs, unassigned, MC, Vox and Podemos) and representatives of judges and prosecutors.
After chairing the Board meeting at the Town Hall, Arroyo recalled that the minister, Pilar Llop, informed him at the beginning of September of her intention to hold an ideas competition. Given this, the councilor stressed the importance of “not wasting a minute” to put on the table the issues that legal professionals, businessmen and neighbors consider essential.
Arroyo also informed the Table that the Ministry is willing to take on the urbanization of the plot ceded by the Consistory for this project, in front of the Santa Lucía Hospital. The amount would be around 2 million, due to the higher cost of materials.
Civil, Criminal, Minors and Social
The City Council considered paying the urbanization costs of the plot, which were calculated at 1.4 million euros, and Justice promised to contribute 40 million to build the complex. However, the dean of the Bar Association, Ángel Méndez, demanded that the Ministry not wait for the new complex to create new courts. “It will take three or four years, being optimistic,” he warned.
They see “very urgent” that there is an eighth court of First Instance before the “tremendous” traffic jam in Family matters
“A new Civil Court (First Instance) is extremely urgent; and one more Instruction and one more magistrate is also needed to unfold the Civil and Criminal sections in the Provincial Court. And regarding the Juvenile Court, it’s okay not to have it, “Méndez specified. And as there are currently several courts scattered around the city, given the lack of space in the Palace of Justice, located on Calle Ángel Bruna, the representative of the lawyers requested the collaboration of the City Council in the transfer of more spaces. He has already provided the Molina Palace for the Commercial Court, which will open on October 31.
The dean of attorneys, Alejandro Lozano, asked “that the minister not forget about us.” In this judicial party “we always go to the queue” in infrastructures and judicial bodies, he criticized him. And he requested an eighth Court of First Instance, because “there is a tremendous delay in the Family jurisdiction, because there is only one and a half courts. Instance 7 was created to dedicate it only to Family, but later they also assigned civil affairs ».
Delivery of spaces
As for the social graduates, the president of the regional association, José Moreno, advanced that his group will request that space be reserved in the City of Justice for two more Social Courts. Now there are three, two of them outside the Palace of Justice. Moreno noted that the people of Cartagena have been “demanding” the campus for “more than ten years.”
Arroyo promised the “total and absolute support” of the municipal government to offer places that serve as temporary headquarters for new courts. “The location is not going to be a problem, we will collaborate as we have done up to now in the necessary space to be able to offer these services,” he said. The Consistory requested in 2020 that Justice use the unused floors of the union building, in the Plaza de España.
MC urges to formalize the transfer of the plot in front of Santa Lucía
The deputy spokesman for MC, Jesús Giménez, criticized yesterday that the local government (of PP, Cs and not attached) has not started the urban planning procedures for three weeks to register the Santa Lucía plot in the name of the Ministry, so that it tenders the works of the City of Justice. He demanded that the two administrations collaborate to open new courts in temporary venues. And she recalled that the central government has a place in the Casa del Mar. The mayor cited an empty Defense office on Calle Mayor.
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