The Spanish Constitutional Court jurisdictional activities are summarized in the Yearbook that the supreme interpreter of the Constitution has published since 1999. The annual report offers a brief description of the Court’s decisions and activities. It is prepared by the Secretary General services with an exclusive informative aim. It also offers some statistical data that the interested reader can visualize through the links offered at the bottom of this page.
During its over 28 years of life, the Constitutional Court has received 133,782 lawsuits of all descriptions; it has passed almost 120,000 final judgements, of which 3,387 were sentences, almost 12,000 were Court Orders and over 100,000 were writs of nonadmission or of abatement.
(on the 30-11-2008)
The statistical data in the annual report are offered, for the sake of clarity, in the following epigraphs:
- The demand on constitutional justice, to be read in the following tables:
- Number 1 – Cases registered in the year
- Number 2 – Cases registered in the year, by proceeding
- Number 7 – Plenum: cases registered, by claimant
- Number 8 – Territorial litigation in the year, by Autonomous Communities
- Number 11 – Origin of the individual complaints (recursos de amparo) registered
- Number 12 - Individual complaints: plaintiffs and fundamental rights invoked
- Number 13 - Individual complaints based on any of the fundamental rights enumerated in article 24 of the Constitution, and
- Number 14 - Individual complaints: body adopting the final decision challenged
- The judgements rendered and other jurisdictional decisions adopted, in the following tables:
- Number 3 – Judgements an decisions rendered in the year, according to the form of the decision
- Number 4 – Judgments delivered in different proceedings (and cases finished)
- Number 14 – Judicial decisions declared null and void, and
- Number 9 – Decisions adopted and cases finished by the Plenary Court, in different proceedings
- Admission procedures and a general statistical balance of the year is offered in tables:
- Number 5- Relationship among cases registered, heard and decided
- Proceedings (and joined cases) in the docket at the end of the year, pending decision on admissibility or on the merits, are given in the following tables:
- Number 6 – Proceedings and cases registered and accepted to be heard on 31 december, and
- Number 10 – Cases to be decided by the Plenary Court pending on 31 december, classified by proceeding and origin
- Finally, every year comparative data are provided in table number 15 for the last five years, on registered cases, judgements and decisions rendered, cases decided and cases pending.
Recent annual reports of the Court offer some graphics on the more relevant quantitative data, to help gauging the numbers that display the jurisdictional activities of the Spanish Constitutional Court.