The president of the Supreme Court and the CGPJ has inaugurated in Granada the XX Conference of Presidents of Provincial Courts.
The president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes, has trusted this Wednesday that “before the summer” the renewal of the council will take place, so that a “totally anomalous” situation is put to an end that “has never occurred” in the very history of this constitutional body.
Lesmes has spoken in this way to questions from journalists in Granada, before opening the XX Conference of Presidents of Provincial Courts, about the possibility of resuming negotiations to renew the highest body of judges. “We hope that the council will indeed be renewed because we are experiencing a totally anomalous situation” and “we hope that this renewal will take place before the summer,” he confided.
The president of the Supreme Court and the CGPJ subsequently inaugurated the 20th Conference of Presidents of Provincial Courts, which resumed after two years of the pandemic, in an act that The president of the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), Lorenzo del Río, and the president of the Court of Granada, José Luis López Fuentes, have also attended.
During the conference, which is coordinated by the president of the Court of Granada, they will discuss, among other issues, the operation of the provincial coordination commissions against violence against women; the organizational measures on mass litigation or the functions of the presidents of the Provincial Courts.
They will also discuss publicity, transparency and data protection; good practice in digital processing; the referral of sentences of special relevance to the Judicial Documentation Center (Cendoj) and the treatment of specializations in the sections of the Provincial Courts.
The conference will close next Friday, May 20, with the approval of the conclusions document –which will be presented publicly– and the election of the venue for the next annual conference of presidents in 2023.
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