In 2024, the Canary Islands courts recorded the country's highest rate of dismissal procedures filed per 100,000 inhabitants (460.5).
The data has been released by the General Council of the Judiciary, published in the latest report "Effects of the economic crisis on the judicial bodies", which the statistics section of the General Council of the Judiciary made public this Friday.
In 2024, the labor courts of the Canary Islands initiated a total of 10,344 dismissal procedures, 1.7% more than in the previous year (10,176).
This data implies that the rate of lawsuits for dismissal per 100,000 inhabitants in the islands was the highest in the country, above Valencia (405.9) and Madrid (390.9).
The report also reveals that the growth of the old bankruptcies in the commercial courts of the Canary Islands was 39.8% last year, which means that in the Canary Islands they increased by 4.3% more than the national average (35.5%).
However, this increase seems moderate compared to that recorded between 2022 and 2023, when bankruptcies grew in the Canary Islands by 115.4%, according to a note from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands.
With the data handled by the Council, it can be stated that during 2024 the Canary Islands was the fifth community with the highest percentage increase in bankruptcy petitions. The first was Madrid with 72.8%; the second, Murcia (62.4%), the third, Castila-La Mancha, with 51%, and the fourth, Castilla y León (48.8%).
