Increasing Litigation: Judicial Cases in Alicante Rise by 10%

The number of cases filed in the judicial bodies of the Valencian Community during the second quarter of this year was 219,385, representing an increase of 9.5% compared to the same period last year, when 200,392 were recorded. In the province of Alicante, the increase was higher, at 10.2%.

In the province of Alicante, judicial bodies recorded a total of 77,186 new cases between April and June this year (38,874 in Civil, 32,699 in Criminal, 812 in Administrative-Contentious and 4,801 in Social). During this period, 71,525 cases were resolved, 10.6% more than a year earlier, and a total of 159,372 procedures and cases remained pending at the end of the period, an increase of 15.7%.

These and other data are included in the statistical report on the «Situation of Judicial Bodies in the Second Quarter of 2024,» made public by the General Council of the Judiciary this Monday.

The trend was upward across all jurisdictional orders except for Administrative-Contentious. The greatest increase in registered procedures occurred in Social jurisdiction, with a 21.9% rise to 14,448 compared to 11,849 a year earlier.

In Civil jurisdiction, 102,373 new cases were filed compared to 92,225 from April-June 2023, representing an increase of 11%. Meanwhile, the 98,776 cases in Criminal jurisdiction marked an annual growth of 7.4%, as there were 91,995 a year earlier. Finally, in Administrative-Contentious jurisdiction, there were 3,788 new cases registered, a decrease of 12.4% from the 4,323 in 2023.

In Spain during the second quarter of 2024, a total of 2,045,647 cases were filed across all judicial bodies. This figure represents an increase of 12.7% compared to the same quarter last year.

The litigation rate across the State was 41.92 cases per thousand inhabitants, four points higher than in the same quarter of 2023 when it stood at 37.8. The autonomous communities that showed a litigation rate above the national average were Canary Islands (56.96), Madrid (46.25), Murcia (44.42), Asturias (43.99), and Andalusia (43.34). In the Valencian Community that rate is below the national average by one point with 40.94 cases per thousand inhabitants.

The judicial bodies of the Valencian Community resolved between April and June this year a total of 204,726 cases, which is an increase of 9.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Despite this increase, there remained pending at the end of the period a total of 417,001 cases, an increase of 16.2%.

With these figures, the resolution rate (ratio between resolved and filed cases over a given period) improved by 0.1%, while pendency rates (ratio between pending cases at end-of-period and resolved ones) and congestion rates (ratio between sum of pending at start-of-period and registered ones relative to resolved) increased by 6% and by 3.9%, respectively.

In Civil jurisdiction, the number of resolved cases during the quarter was 89,953—an increase of 10.6% from a year earlier—and there remained pending at end-of-period a total of 245,591—an increase of 22%.

In Criminal jurisdiction,the number resolved was at 98,113—with an annual increase rate at about eight-point-seven percent—and those pending resolution after three months totaled one-hundred-eleven-thousand-eight-hundred-forty marking up four-point-two percent rise meanwhile within Administrative-contentious four-thousand-four-hundred-nineteen issues got solved five-point-nine percent less than second-quarter twenty-twenty-two leaving eleven-thousand-five-hundred-seven still underway down thirteen-point-four percent whilst social order saw twelve-thousand-two-hundred-forty-one solved sixteen-percent more than previous term yet forty-eight-thousand-sixty-three awaited processing surging twenty-nine-point-nine percent.

Between April and June this year courts throughout Valencia region issued fifty-one-thousand-three-hundred-forty verdicts increasing fifteen-point-seven percent interannually hundred-thousand-five-hundred-eleven orders up six-point-one percent versus prior annum plus forty-six-thousand-ten decrees.

Thus pendency congestion indices climbed civilly ten-point-three seven-six respectively whilst socially twelve eight-nine within Q2 twenty-twenty-four whereas penal matters saw reductions four-one two-six along admin-contentious categories decreasing seven-nine five-seven accordingly.