The judges ask for the creation of several places dedicated to violence against women in the face of new skills they take soon

The courts of Violence for women THE Crimes of sexual violenceWhat will mean 20% more workloadan increase that from the Ministry of Justice intends to face By increasing the number of specialized judges 50%But these are skeptical: “A saint is undressing to wear another”.

TO Carmen GámizHead of the Court of Violence on Women Number 6 of Madrid and member of the National Committee of the Francisco De Vitoria Judial Association (AJFV), this increase in cases will be “La pointslla” for the courts that are already found “overload” work And now they will have to suppose “Very complex instructions counts”And this takes a long time To listen to the victim correctly and lead the investigations.

In the same sense, the co -founder of the Donna Giudici Association of Spain (Amje) and the magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, Gloria PoyatosHe believes that with the overload suffered by the courts today, These new skills can only be undertaken by creating new places.

And to illustrate it, he recalls the results of the assessment of psychosocial risks prepared by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) which has shown it 84% of the judicial bodies in Spain are in “very high” overloadof work. In the case of the shorts of violence for women, this risk was 72%.

“If we already start from a structural work overload and also add 20% more, This will have a bidirectional impact. First of all, in the health of the people who direct these organs and secondly, in Quality of justiceSince in less time distributed in several issues, it will reduce dedication and influence the quality of justice that occurs to women victims of gender violence, “he says.

So this magistrate considers him The places of judges and judges who dedicate themselves to violence against women must be increased. “Only then can it be absorbed normally.” “If the current plant is maintained, we will be few”Gámiz insists, which explains that last year in Madrid they registered Almost 2,000 questions in court. This is already very “and let’s go a day”. “If more cases give us, a time will come when it will not be possible. Something must be delayed necessarily, it is pure mathematical.

The judges warn the total collapse of the courts

From this situation, a total of 135 judges specialized in the sexist violence who warned of “Total collapse” which will mean for its courts the entry into force of the law of efficiency of justice, since They must take on all sexual crimesalthough they are not limited to the couple’s reach, as well as others from Shows, harassment or genital mutilation.

This will mean -Calculalan – an increase of 20% in the workload of these courts, as the Minister of Presidency and Justice, of justice admitted, Félix Bolañoswho transferred the intention of strengthen the specialized sections with resources from education.

In fact, on March 8, coinciding with the International Women’s Day, Bolaños announced it The number of specialized judges will expand 50%. The question that is now asked by the judges’ associations is How that increase will be carried out.

“Play a saint to wear another”

The spokesman for Francisco De Vitoria (Ajfv) judicial association, Sergio Olivawonders Where all these places will obtain the ministry. “There has been no specific request for opposition places for the judge and it has not been said if the replacement body has the purpose of achieving consolidation and who are those people who dedicate themselves to those places”.

“Us We fear that when the minister speaks of a 50%increase, he refers to the conversion of many judges and judges of education in judges of violence against women. That is, we are deviating one saint to wear another. The government generates a new problem and, to solve it, causes another big problem in criminal jurisdiction “I notify.

And to this is added another big problem, such as the specialization of judges in sexist violence. That’s why Oliva believes that the most appropriate would be Convene the oppositionsTo create new places of judges which have ideal training in this sector.

Delays and worse attention to victims

Gámiz also warns that with the increase in cases They will not be able to serve the victims just like now and many problems will be delayed. “We know firsthand what can happen because we know the time we have to listen to a victim.”

It also recalls that these courts also have civil skillsAs divorces, the adoption of measures in relation to minor children, visits regime … and underlines that some of their colleagues propose the creation, within the education courts, of sections specialized in sexual violence, although it warns that for this more personal it is necessary, and not only the judges, but not only the judges, but the judges, but the judges, but the judges, Processing infrastructure of these issues with the corresponding staff.

For the spokesperson for judges and judges for democracy (JJPD), Edmundo RodríguezWhat is announced by the government “proceeds on the right path” by reorganizing and attributing a greater number of resources to the fight against violence against women and converting the former education courts, criminal courts and hearings in the bodies specialized in violence for women.

The question – he explains – is that Two reforms were overlapping at the same time. On the one hand, which attributes new powers to the courts of violence against women and on the other the reform of the judicial plant, which reduces over 3,800 unipersonal courts existing to 436 request courts.

In this way, there will be no violence for women, but there will be Sections of violence against women within the courts of the application of each location.