2,772 views
The Judicial Office goes beyond the traditional model of the old courts made up of a judge, a clerk of the Court and a certain number of officials who work independently, to form a new organization that establishes rational and homogeneous work systems, so that judicial activity is carried out with maximum efficiency and responsibility. The new organization of the Judicial Office is made up of two different types of procedural units, according to their functionality: • The Direct Support Procedural Units, which assist judges and magistrates in the exercise of their functions, carrying out the actions necessary for the exact and effective compliance of all the resolutions they issue. • The Common Procedural Services that, under the direction of a clerk of the Court, assume centralized management and support tasks in actions derived from the application of procedural laws. In addition to these procedural units, there are Administrative Units which, without being integrated into the Judicial Office, direct, order and manage human resources, computer resources and material resources. Activities assumed by the judicial office The new organizational model introduced by the Judicial Office clearly distinguishes the three types of activity carried out within the scope of the Administration of Justice: • The jurisdictional, which falls to judges and magistrates. • The procedural, which corresponds to the lawyers of the Administration of Justice and the support and procedural services. • The administrative, which falls to the Ministry of Justice or to the Autonomous Communities with assumed powers. Advantages of the model The differentiation of activities by type of unit allows: • Freeing judges and magistrates from non-jurisdictional tasks, so that they can focus all their efforts on the function attributed to them by the Constitution: judging and enforcing what is judged. • Strengthening the powers of the legal advisers of the Administration of Justice, who, as directors of the Common Services, assume new procedural responsibilities. • Specialisation in the tasks carried out in the judicial bodies. A more efficient restructuring of work and resources, as well as a more precise and rational distribution of functions. Source: Ministry of Justice.