Overview
- Vigo is now operating with seven investigating judges after state-published transfers moved the reinforcement judge from Court 8 into the vacant Court 7 post.
- Judicial sources expect about a 15% rise in workload as the hundreds of cases from Court 8 are spread across the remaining judges.
- The staff from the abolished court will stay together to process its pending files, effectively keeping Court 8 alive as a ghost unit.
- The Justice Ministry is processing a Royal Decree to recreate the eighth post, but it has not been approved yet.
- After longtime chief judge Germán Serrano moved to Galicia’s high court, Civil Section head Manuel Ángel Pereira took over on an interim basis and plans elections in June.