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Social jurisdiction. Social courts. Provinces

Social courts. Movement of cases. Provinces Catalonia
Cases Registered Pending Sentences Judgements Registered
2022 58,407 50,598 22,033 9,555
2021 55,338 49,702 22,654 9,608
2020 52,482 54,134 14,791 6,200
2019 55,480 43,792 20,323 8,456
2018 49,977 40,252 20,627 8,551
2017 50,653 40,656 21,644 4,770
2016 49,744 41,687 23,150 5,709
2015 53,918 46,611 23,607 6,159
2014 58,529 49,053 23,744 12,464
2013 63,764 48,678 24,599 14,217
2012 62,090 42,684 25,962 7,953
2011 58,691 39,299 26,634 7,907
2010 58,921 35,145 27,928 8,092
2009 63,328 31,188 28,137 7,260
2008 54,927 23,012 24,489 10,204
2007 42,284 14,609 23,734 8,803
2006 42,402 15,862 22,814 8,843
2005 41,949 15,245 24,055 9,327
2004 42,721 15,875 24,743 10,046
2003 46,688 17,347 25,868 10,125
2002 46,232 17,892 25,868 10,125
2001 41,256 16,012 24,162 11,126
2000 37,308 16,641 23,538 8,649
1999 40,718 19,348 23,041 8,726
1998 42,613 17,369 24,574 10,728
1997 41,722 15,425 26,561 11,983
Source:
1997-2007: Departament de Justícia i Interior de la Generalitat de Catalunya based on the Annual report of the Consejo General del Poder Judicial.
2008-2013: Data prepared by Departament de Justícia based on data from the Consejo General del Poder Judicial.
2014-2022: Ministry of Justice, based on data from the General Council of the Judiciary.

Last update: October 16, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Social courts
Judicial bodies with competence for labour issues and Social Security in a provincial or inter-provincial area. The affairs these resolve can be classed as collective conflicts, individual conflicts and Social Security conflicts.
Sentence
Declaration of judgement and resolution by the judge.

Methodological aspects

The courts of general jurisdiction are organized into different areas of law because of the matter of the affairs they know. The areas of law are: criminal, civil, social and contentious-administrative proceedings.

Other organizational criterium is the territory, according to the territorial scope of their competences, which can be state, regional, supra provincial, provincial, infra provincial, judicial district or municipal.

Finally, the judicial bodies are classified in unipersonal (courts) and collegiate bodies (courts of law), according to the number of persons in charge.

The highest judicial body in all areas of law is the Supreme Court with jurisdiction in all Spanish territory. Another court with jurisdiction in all of Spain is the National High Court specialised in the knowledge of criminal, contentious and social matters over an autnomous community jurisdiction.

With jurisdiction in all the Spanish territory and out of the general jurisdiction, the Constitutional Court is specialised in the knowledge of all appeals on grounds of unconstitutionality of laws and norms, of appeals for legal protection due to violation of fundamental rights and of conflicts of jurisdiction between the State and the Autonomous Communities or among these ones.

Types of judicial bodies

The following judicial bodies have seat in Catalonia:

  • High Court of Justice of Catalonia
  • Provincial Courts
  • Senior Courts
  • First Instance and Preliminary Investigations Courts
  • Family Courts and Status and Legal Capacity of Natural Persons Courts
  • Mercantile Courts
  • Courts of the Civil Status Register exclusively
  • Courts on Violence against Women
  • Juvenile Courts
  • Execution Courts
  • Criminal Courts
  • Social Courts
  • Court for Contentious Administrative Proceedings
  • Magistrate's Courts

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".

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