The Congressional Justice Commission today approved the opinion of the Organic Law Project on measures regarding the efficiency of the Public Justice Service, which has attracted the support of all parliamentary groups except PP and Vox.
The socialist spokesperson for Justice, Francisco Aranda, has pointed out that it is a “very necessary law and demanded by the sector, a brave law” that “changes the paradigm of the judicial plant.”
This law is structured in two titles. The first title undertakes the organizational reform of the Administration of Justice in all its areas, through the creation and constitution of the Courts of Instance and the evolution of the Peace Courts to Justice Offices in the municipalities. The law regulates, in a complementary manner, the conclusion of the development and implementation work of a Judicial Office adapted to this new judicial organization and the Justice Offices in the municipalities that are established.
The reform deepens the specialization of judicial bodies, as well as the adaptation of the personal and material resources that support them in the fulfillment of the tasks derived from the jurisdictional function. It also develops instruments that allow greater homogeneity in the practices and behaviors of judicial bodies and judicial offices, which will imply greater predictability, accessibility and proximity, providing security and confidence to citizens and professionals who relate to the Administration. of Justice.
Aranda has highlighted that it is a law made with “judges, prosecutors, lawyers, solicitors, mediators, collaborative law professionals in mind” and, above all and ultimately, “the end user of justice, who are the citizens”.
Among other issues included in this Bill, aspects such as the renovation of the entire judicial plant stand out, with the establishment of the Courts of Instance and the Municipal Justice Offices, the maintenance of the peace courts, the elimination of the Golden Visa, the regulation of the situation of substitute judges, the specialization of childhood, family and capacity courts, or the commitment to alternative means of conflict resolution.
Thus, there will be a single court assisted by a single organization that will support it, the Judicial Office, and there will no longer be courts with their own way of functioning, such as the current single-person courts.
This judicial organization and the interrelation mechanisms that the law establishes between the Court of Instance and the Judicial Office that provides support will allow the correction of dysfunctions derived from the different ways of proceeding in purely organizational and procedural aspects.
Municipal offices for the justices of the peace
The evolution of the Peace Courts is also addressed, which were created by the Royal Decree of October 22, 1855. Thus, the Office of Justice will be created in the municipality, which is an administrative structure that draws on the current secretariats of the Peace Courts.
This office will not only maintain the current services, but will expand them, increasing its catalog of efforts within the Administration of Justice and bringing it closer to all municipalities. The Office of Justice in the municipality fulfills, from another perspective, the social function that the Justice of the Peace has had for so long, adapting the service and replacing the Peace Courts, whose figure disappears from the system.
Likewise, it has been decided that the part referring to collective actions for the protection and defense of the rights and interests of consumers and users will be regulated through another law.
Once approved in the Commission, the opinion will continue its processing in Plenary.
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