SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
During the third quarter of the year, the Canary Islands registered a litigation rate of 41.1 lawsuits per 1,000 inhabitants, the highest in the State in the study period, according to official data from the General Council of the Judiciary released this Wednesday, and this despite that in the same period it registered the second best resolution rate in the country.
The report on the situation of the judicial bodies in the third quarter shows that the archipelago continues to be the Spanish territory where the most people go to court and we have to go back to the judicial statistics of six years ago, to 2016, to not find the Canary Islands at the head of the regions where the most lawsuits are filed.
Last summer, the average litigation rate in Spain was 32.1 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, 9 points lower than that of the islands.
The territories that showed a litigation rate higher than the national one between April and June of this year were, according to official data, the Canary Islands (41.1), Andalusia (34.6), the Balearic Islands (34.5), Catalonia (33 .6), Murcia (33.5), Asturias (33.4) and the Valencian Community (32.5). The territories with the lowest rate of litigation were La Rioja (21.9), the Basque Country (22.3) and Extremadura (24.7).
In addition to the Canary Islands being the community where litigation took place the most between July and September, the province of Las Palmas was the fourth with the highest rate of litigation during that period, 43.17 lawsuits per 1,000 inhabitants.
The first was Ceuta (46.35), the second Málaga (43.69) and the third Lugo (43.43), collects a note from the TSJC.
In the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the litigation rate in the reference period was 35.7, which places it in the middle positions of the national table. The quietest province in terms of lawsuits was Lleida, with 18.92 lawsuits per 1,000 inhabitants.
In terms of absolute data, the 211 judicial bodies in the Canary Islands began the third quarter of 2022 with 161,511 pending cases (7.4% more than in the same period of 2021), 89,513 entered (10.4% more), resolved 81,723 (5.7% more) and left 169,502 pending at the end of the period, 10.4% more than in the spring of the previous year.
In the province of Las Palmas, the 110 judicial bodies of the four jurisdictions began the third quarter of 2022 with 78,620 pending cases (9% more than in the same period of 2021), 48,722 processes entered (8.7% more ), resolved 45,749 cases (6.8% more) and left 81,315 pending (10% more).
The data referring to the third quarter of 2022 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife are as follows: the 94 judicial bodies began with 76,210 pending cases (6.5% more), entered 37,396 (12.6% more), resolved 33,025 ( 4.5% less) and left 81,037 processes pending at the end of September, 11.2% more.
Between July and September of this year, the pendency rate of the Canary Islands judicial bodies (quotient between the cases at the end of the period and those resolved during that period) was 2.07, the fourth lowest in Spain (the rate is lower positive the lower it is).
The national average was 5.54; the resolution rate (quotient between resolved cases and those admitted; the higher the better) was 0.91, the second best in Spain along with the Balearic Islands and Cantabria and after Andalusia (0.92), with the Spanish average being 0, 89, and the congestion rate (quotient where the numerator is formed by the sum of the issues pending at the beginning of the period and those registered in that period and the denominator is the issues resolved in that period, the lower the better) was 3.07, the fourth lowest in the country. The national average was 3.42.
BY JURISDICTIONS
The statistical report that analyzes the movement of cases in the courts between July and September 2022 reveals that the judicial bodies of the criminal jurisdiction in the islands began the third quarter of 2022 with 39,471 cases pending resolution (7.4% that in the same period of 2021), 44,174 cases were entered (6.1% more than in the summer of 2021) and 41,852 were resolved, 3.2% more than in the third quarter of the previous year.
The number of cases pending at the end of the period was 41,960 (+7.2%).
In the field of civil jurisdiction, the island courts began the summer with 97,366 pending cases (12.3 more than in the third quarter of 2021), entered 36,962 (+17.2%), resolved 32,927 (+11, 9) and left 101,433 processes pending resolution for the fourth quarter (+14.7%).
The data of the social jurisdiction in the islands during last summer were the following: the quarter began with 17,760 cases in process (+7.4%), entered 6,579 (+15.2%), resolved 5,353 (+0.4 %) and 18,921 (+0.4%) left the process.
In the contentious-administrative order, at the end of June the island judicial bodies had 6,914 processes pending (+0.4%), entered 1,798 (-16.9%), resolved 1,591 (-20.2%) and left pending at the end of the period 7,188 (+1.3%).
