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CGPJ Reports 2025 Backlog Rise Driven by Penal Caseload, With Sharp Local Gaps

The year-end justice reform took effect too late to shape these figures.

Overview

  • The judiciary’s statistics office, which released its 2025 report Monday, counted 1,399,188 cases received in Andalucía, Ceuta and Melilla, 1,393,375 resolved, and 870,003 still pending.
  • Córdoba closed 2025 with 65,990 pending matters, up 4.6% year over year, after a late-year dip from an earlier peak near 68,200.
  • Criminal courts in Córdoba drove the strain with almost 3,600 more unresolved cases, a 21% jump, while Civil pending fell to 37,280, about 1,300 fewer than in 2024.
  • Córdoba’s efficiency indicators improved modestly, with an overall resolution rate of 0.98 and lower pendency, though Penal’s rate fell to 0.95 as Civil climbed to 1.02.
  • Galicia finished 2025 with 210,166 pending cases, down 3.5%, even as Penal pending rose 4.7%, and the small courts of Lalín and A Estrada together carried 2,099 open files with backlogs equal to about five months of work if no new cases arrived.