Overview
- Ignacio Picatoste, newly installed president of the TSXG, told the A Coruña ceremony that judicial independence is a guarantee for citizens, not a privilege.
- He called for more judges, right‑sized staffing and effective digital tools, promoted alternative dispute resolution, and pledged uncompromising transparency.
- Picatoste supported the rollout of Spain’s efficiency law for the justice service and vowed to troubleshoot its implementation from the TSXG presidency.
- In his farewell, fiscal superior Fernando Suanzes urged a State pact to reinforce justice funding and warned of algorithmic bias risks in any court use of AI under mandatory human oversight.
- Suanzes reported 154,204 criminal cases processed in Galicia in 2024, up 5.17%, noted shifts in crime types, and announced an instruction to intensify prosecution of forest‑fire offenses using precautionary measures and new technologies.