Sant Cugat City Council requests that the UAB study the legal needs of the city
After the Spanish Congress of Deputies gave the go-ahead to the creation of Sant Cugat's own judicial district, the city council has requested that the UAB conduct a study on the number and characteristics of the courts the city would need. This was announced in a meeting Mayor Josep Maria Vallès and Rector Javier Lafuente held on Tuesday 28 January.
Mayor Vallès explained that “around Spring Break, the UAB will deliver this study, which we will then present to the Ministry for Justice” and stated that, in this way, the council works “together with a prestigious international institution, especially in the field of law”. Rector Lafuente, for his part, affirmed that the UAB takes “this assignment very seriously because it will be a process of innovation that will have to be adapted to the new law and that will become a reference for the future creation of new courts”.
The project is part of the new Organic Law on Measures for the Efficiency of the Public Justice Service, which includes class actions for the protection and defense of the rights and interests of consumers and users, and changes the way some courts will be organised from now on. In addition, the fact that in the past 25 years the state has not created any new judicial district means that there is no up-to-date knowledge of the process of creating a court of justice.
The approval of the law, this past 19 December, put an end to a long claim, launched more than thirty years ago: Sant Cugat del Vallès currently depends on the judicial district of Rubí, and the new court district will respond to the needs of the citizens of a population of nearly 100,000 inhabitants. The city council has 10,678 m2 of land on which the new facility will be located.
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