Rapport european judicial systems
The report, which applies to the year 2012, contains comparative tables of 46 European countries, all members of the Council of Europe, expect Lichtenstein.
Information on budges of judicial systems, access to justice, the time to resolve claims, the length of proceedings, legal aid, and career status of judges, prosecutors and lawyers as well as investment in the new technology are some of the parameters that are analyzed in the study
The document notes that Spain was the sixth European country with more budged allocated to justice: 4,632,278,011 euro in 2010. It also specifies that there are 10.2 judges out of 100,000 inhabitants, compared to the European average of 21.3. It is also one the countries with the highest number o lawyers per judge: 26.7.
It also emphasized that the salaries of trial judges and prosecutors at the beginning of their careers in Spain were in 2012 of 47,494 euro gross per year – slightly higher than the European average of 46,056 euro gross per year.
The report also addresses the issue of legal fees, as they are important financial resources to cover some of the operating costs and even generating profit, such as Austria. Payment of court feed is widely spread in Europe and in many cases serves to cover access to the courts to poor people, the statement of the CEPEJ.
In Spain the judicial revenues in Spain come to 4.1 % of the budget, far below other countries such as Italy (7.4 %), Ireland (16.9%), Greece (22.8%), Portugal (31.1%), Poland (31.2%), Germany (43%) or Austria (108.8).
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http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/default_EN.asp?