The Plenary of the General Council of the Judiciary has appointed this Thursday the magistrate Juan Luis Lorenzo Bragado as the new president of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, a position in which he will replace Antonio Doreste Armas, whose mandate expired in September 2019.
Juan Luis Lorenzo Bragado, currently the head of the exclusive Civil Registry number 1 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was elected in the second vote with the support of 13 of the 21 members of the Plenary.
It was the second time that the Plenary of the CGPJ addressed the appointment to fill the presidency of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. On the first occasion, on November 28, 2019, the Plenary returned the list of magistrates to the Permanent Commission as none of the candidates obtained the required majority in the four votes held.
The new president of the TSJ of the Canary Islands joined the Judicial Career in 1989, a date from which he served in courts of Puebla de Sanabria, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Palencia and Santa Cruz de Tenerife until, in January 2009, he was assigned as a magistrate to the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands. A few months later, in May, he joined his current destination, the exclusive Civil Registry number 1 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Since 2015, he has been appointed almost uninterruptedly as a reinforcement magistrate on a service commission in the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He has been the elected dean of the courts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife since 2001 and has been part of the Governing Chamber of the TSJ of the Canary Islands as an elected member since 2014.
Professor in the area of Civil Law of the University of La Laguna in the course 2013-2014, he is the author of articles on civil liability of health personnel, on different aspects related to the regulation and operation of the civil registry or on the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands.
In collaboration with the CGPJ, he has taught courses on the reform of the Civil Procedure Law, marriage, adoptions and guardianships, human rights and immigration, eviction procedure and has coordinated various meetings of the justices of the peace of Santa Cruz de Tenerife or of magistrates of civil registry.
