Overview

• By March 31, Galician courts carried 227,526 pending cases, a rise of almost 13% year-on-year.
• New filings jumped 18.2% in the first quarter, outpacing a 14.2% increase in resolved cases and deepening the backlog.
• Ontinyent’s gender violence docket swelled by 88% to 94 pending cases after a judicial vacancy halted more than 100 hearings.
• Vigo’s civil courts face 16,623 unresolved cases, a three-fold increase over the past decade, as officials protest the elimination of an instruction court.
• Ourense saw pending cases rise 10.6% to 18,383 despite a 16.3% surge in resolutions, underscoring chronic understaffing across the region.