The president of the Court of First Instance of Arrecife leaves his post after seven years
Adalberto de la Cruz Correa has said goodbye with a memoir in which he reviews his career in office and with a letter of thanks
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Labor fines a Lanzarote company more than 108,000 euros for employing undocumented workers
The Labor Inspectorate carried out five inspections simultaneously on different construction sites on the island, where it detected twelve employees without legal work permits and two who were combining unemployment benefits with irregular employment.
Real Madrid footballer Raúl Asencio convicted in the Canary Islands for drunk driving
This sentence is known just 24 hours before the defender appears before the judge in the trial for the case of the sexual video that three former footballers allegedly recorded in 2023 and that was shared by Asencio.
Order to hand over to Ireland one of the leaders of the Irish mafia arrested in Lanzarote
The detainee, accused of belonging to a criminal organization Hutch, would be the trusted person of the gang leader, arrested in Lanzarote at the end of 2024 and awaiting trial for an alleged money laundering offense in Spain.
Justice releases the alleged perpetrator of mistreating a dog in Lanzarote
It was the Ademal collective who reported these events to Seprona, which is why the animal was seized from this man
The Supreme Court sentences to 11 years in prison for sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in the Canary Islands
As a consequence, the minor suffered a strong emotional impact and has been undergoing psychological therapy, while the accused has remained in provisional prison for three years
The National Court maintains seized in Lanzarote vehicles and a boat linked to a cocaine network
The court sees indications of a criminal structure that introduced 3.6 tons of drugs and operated since 2024
The Court rejects halting a case for transporting 76 million euros in cocaine to the Canary Islands
They used a WhatsApp group called "Friends", made up of users in Venezuela, Colombia, and the United Kingdom, through which they coordinated the delivery of "certain" merchandise and fuel.
Police officer suspended for allowing cocaine use and leaving his ID to prepare the drug in the Canary Islands
The events took place when he was located by a police device next to three other people, although the sanctioned person denies the account and maintains that he had moved away from the group at a "considerable" distance.
Fined 50,000 euros a website that advertised women for prostitution in Lanzarote and other islands
On the platform there were advertisements from various Spanish cities, among them also Tenerife and Gran Canaria
Court and Prosecution do not oppose suspending the extradition of a defendant accused of raping his daughter ten times
The Briton, who was arrested in the Canary Islands, is 80 years old and his defense requested that the extradition be denied for humanitarian reasons due to health problems.
The Prosecutor's Office files a lawsuit against León and Eugenio for the Navilan contracts and other parties
The Public Prosecutor's Office relies on a report from the UDEF to go to the Court, which warns of the use of minor contracts and different files following a complaint by lawyer Octavio Topham Camejo
The Supreme dismisses a case for rape of a soldier in the Canary Islands despite the dissenting vote of a judge
The ruling ratifies the decision of the military court of Tenerife, but a magistrate points out that the soldier woke up with symptoms of having been assaulted and with genetic material from two men on her body
The Provincial Court acquits a man accused of raping his ex-partner in Arrecife
The Second Chamber states that the versions of the complainant and the accused are "contradictory" and that the presumption of innocence has not been overcome.
A former magistrate of the National High Court warns of the rise of parallel trials
One of the manifestations the disappearance of the presumption of innocence, the construction of closed narratives, and the inversion of the burden of proof
Fine to another lawyer in the Canary Islands for citing false jurisprudence generated by AI in an appeal
The magistrates who sign this sanction maintain that, at this point, the lawyer should already be aware of "the problem of so-called 'AI hallucinations'".
United Kingdom condemns a businessman for using fraudulent loans to buy a house in Lanzarote
The Insolvency Service points out that Alex Hope applied for two financial aids and laundered the money by transferring the funds to several accounts to acquire a townhouse in Puerto Calero
Five years in prison for stabbing her boyfriend in Costa Teguise
The events took place on November 10, 2024, when both were in the family home they shared in Lanzarote
The TSJC confirms the conviction of the Canary Islands Health Service for the death of a nurse
Justice appreciates a "disproportionate damage" after concluding that the patient died with four liters of fluid in the pleural cavities and that the administration did not manage to solvently explain the causes of her death
Justice sides with San Bartolomé and declares the Güime telephone antenna illegal
The ruling upholds the denial of the urban planning license and dismisses the appeal filed by the company American Tower España S.L.U.
A judicial association denounces the "serious" paralysis of the justice's computer system in the Canary Islands
The Francisco de Vitoria Judicial Association joins the demand of the TSJ of Canarias and requires the regional government to immediately implement a technical contingency plan
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia declares the new garbage tax of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria null and void
The ruling warns of "deficiencies" in the criteria used to quantify and distribute the fee and in the economic-financial report on which it is based
The TSJC files a complaint with the Canary Islands Government for the "paralysis" caused by Atlante's failures
The Governing Council warns that the platform's failure prevents the signing of resolutions, blocks judicial activity in the Canary Islands, and compromises the handling of urgent actions.
The Court rules in favor of Club Lanzarote and recovers the twenty-meter demarcation at the Hotel Natura
Regarding the second plot, the Contentious Chamber leaves the demarcation in the hands of the General Administration of the State, which will have to take into account the urban development potential of the plot
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia confirms the sentences for the gang that posed as police and tortured a man in Lanzarote
The condemned entered the victim's home in 2016, who died two months after the events from serious injuries, to steal jewelry and watches of great value
The Supreme Court will decide if a Canary Islands mother can put her surname first for her son
The Civil Chamber admits for processing an appeal from a woman who requests that her son, born out of wedlock, bear her surname first and then the father's
Montecarlo Case: The interventor of Arrecife, the only one convicted of prevarication in the case
Meanwhile, ten other defendants have been acquitted
Christian Lawyers file a lawsuit against a man who stopped several masses in the Canary Islands with shouts
The man's way of proceeding consisted of entering the parish while mass was being celebrated and, once inside, he began to shout and utter insults and threats
A court rules in favor of a healthcare worker and recognizes abuses in her nearly 20-year temporary hiring
The healthcare worker began working in 2007 at a healthcare center in the Canary Islands and strung together 131 temporary contracts
A Canarian Court annuls the dismissal of a supermarket employee "penalized" for suffering from sclerosis
The Social Chamber of the TSJC ratifies the company's obligation to readmit her to her job and orders Mercadona to pay 15,000 euros for moral damages
