The courts of Ibiza finished 2005 with 4,571 pending causes

The courts of Ibiza accumulated 4,571 pending causes when finalizing the past year, according to the data that appear in the Memory of 2005 of the Superior Court of Justice of Balears (TSJB) presented yesterday in the Parlament. This number supposes an increase of the 12 percent in the accumulation of causes in comparison with 2004 (4,074 pending subjects). This accumulation is due to the increase in the number of subjects that joined the different courts, that they grew in almost 1,400 files with respect to the previous years and despite the increase in the number of solved denunciations, coding in something more than 600. Of the total number of 4,571 pending causes of resolution, 2,445 correspond to the courts of first instance, that take care of the civil subjects, and 2,126 to the instruction courts, that handle the penal causes. The global increase of pending cases is fundamentally due to the difficulty of the three only courts of first instance to give exit to the civil cases. Thus, of the 2,043 files without solving that there was at the end of 2004 it incresed to 2,445, almost a 20 percent more, in 2005. This difference is consequence of the 3,289 new investigations initiated during the year (a 13.89% more), in spite of the 2,895 cases that were resolute throughout 2005 (a 10% more than in 2004). The memory of the TSJB aims that "the creation of the fourth court to date of 30 of December of 2005 generates a reasonable horizon of correct progression towards the recovery of the pendencia". This is because, according to the scales that the memory gathers, each court would have to be able to solve an average of 720 subjects per year, with which the number of courts that would need to assume this accumulated service load is of 4.6, something more of those than Ibiza has now. In the case of the penal subjects transacted by the courts of Instruction, 2,126 files without solving at the end of 2005, 164 more were registered when finishing the preceding exercise, which supposes an increase of 3,15%. In their valuation, the TSJB recognizes a "slight resolving increase", when the cases of 25,557 subjects finalized in 2004 in the 25,896 of the last year. But in contrast, it emphasizes the increase of new causes. In order to explain this situation, to the increase in almost 1,000 new denunciations, until clearing the 25,900, the TSJB unites the "problematic peculiarity of the summer" of the courts of Ibiza, with a remarkable increase of the population and the delinquency in the months of summer, "not sufficiently palliated by the presence of attached judges". The president of the TSJB, Antoni Terrasa, offered these data yesterday after presenting the Memory of 2005 in the Parlament. The document gathers that the courts of Balears accumulated 56,939 pending subjects at the end of 2005, 412 cases more than in the previous year. The analysis made by the TSJB shows the contradiction between the high number of judges by inhabitant (10.45 by each 100,000 inhabitants) and the elevated rate of litigiosidad (amount of judicial subjects by each 10,000 inhabitants), that with 204 cases, surpasses in 95 points the state average. The memory also indicates that the courts display an average delay of a year and four months to solve the files, being this period of nine months for the courts of the Civilian, of four months for those of Social and the two months in the case of the penal causes.

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