In the third quarter of 2023, the judicial bodies of the Canary Islands registered the best resolution rate in Spain, according to data released this Wednesday by the statistics service of the General Council of the Judiciary. The resolution rate is the ratio between the matters resolved and those entered in a given period, and relates the volume of income to the resolution capacity, explains the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC).
An organ, territory or jurisdiction is in a better situation the higher its resolution rate, and if it is greater than one, it indicates that it is resolving more than it is entering. Thus, between July and September of this year, the judicial bodies of the Canary Islands achieved a rate of 0.93, the highest in the country in that period.
The second place was for the communities of Galicia and Valencia (0.89 both), and the third, for Andalusia (0.88).
In the previous quarter, the island's resolution rate had been the fifth highest in the country
The average resolution rate in Spain in the reference period was 0.86. The communities with the lowest rate were Murcia (0.76), La Rioja (0.77) and the two Castillas (0.80). The TSJC values this data especially if one takes into account "an almost endemic fact": the Canary Islands has suffered from 2019 the highest litigation rate in the country and this condition was revalidated last summer.
Between July and September, the archipelago registered a litigation rate of 44.50, the highest in Spain, 10.03 points above the national average (34.47). The second autonomous territory with the highest litigation rate was the Balearic Islands (37.71), and the third, Andalusia (36.81). The community with the lowest rate was the Basque Country (23.18).
Regarding the pending rate (ratio between the pending matters at the end of the period and those resolved in that same period; the lower the better), the archipelago computed in the reference period the third best national record: 2.24. The community with the lowest pendency was Navarra (1.85), and the second, Aragon (1.88). The territory with the highest pendency was Murcia (4.16). The national average was 2.75, 0.51 points higher than the Canary rate.
The last of the parameters that study the state of Justice refers to congestion: the ratio between the sum of the pending matters at the beginning of the period and those registered in that period, and those resolved.
Between July and September 2023, the congestion rate of the judicial bodies of the Canary Islands was 3.25, the third lowest in the country after Navarra (2.84) and Aragon (2.86). The most congested community was Murcia (5.20). The average rate of the country was 3.75.
Regarding absolute figures of movement of matters, during the third quarter of 2023 the 211 bodies of the Administration of Justice in the Canary Islands began the study period with 198,091 matters in process (22.6% more than in the same period of 2022), entered 98,471 (10% more), resolved 91,153 (+11.5%) and left 204,406 in process at the end of the period (+20.6%).
By jurisdictions, the civil one reached July 2023 with 123,731 matters in process (plus 27%), entered 42,159 (plus 14.1%), resolved 37,566 (14.1%) and left 128,148 in process (plus 26.3%).
In the criminal order, the island judicial bodies accumulated on July 1, 2023 a total of 44,756 matters in process (plus 13.4%), during the quarter they entered 47,951 (plus 8.6%), resolved 46,061 (plus 10.1%) and left 46,122 cases in process on September 30 (plus 9.9%).
In the contentious-administrative jurisdiction, the summer of 2023 began in the Canary Islands with 7,614 appeals in process (plus 10.1%), 1,929 cases were entered (plus 7.3%), 1,814 were resolved (plus 14%) and 7,832 remained in process (plus 9%).
Finally, regarding the Canary Islands data, the Social bodies entered last July with 21,990 matters in process (plus 23.8%), registered 6,432 (minus 2.2%), resolved 5,712 (plus 6.7%) and left 22,304 in process (plus 20.6%).
