EL PODER JUDICIAL EN CATALUÑA, SEGÚN EL ESTATUT Y EL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL. LIMITACIONES Y POSIBILIDADES DE DESARROLLO DE UN MODELO

• Main Author: José M.ª Porras Ramírez
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern 2011-03-01
• Series: Revista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals
• Subjects: Constitution; Statute of Autonomy; Organic Law of Judicial Power; federalism
• Online Access: http://www10.gencat.cat/drep/binaris/_reaf12_Porras_tcm112-146944.pdf

The Constitutional Court Ruling 31/2010, of 28 June has authenticated the limitations and possibilities for the development of a constitutional model of justice that inevitably has to adapt to the reality of a politically decentralized State. The Ruling has therefore taken a reading that consolidates the validity of the most regressive principles of that model, failing to take the opportunity that was offered to require the legislator to exhaust the possibilities for achieving a perfect articulation of the principles of jurisdictional unity and political autonomy, as a preparatory condition for desirable constitutional reform. However, despite the Ruling, those possibilities still exist, encouraged by the federal dynamic of the State itself, which demands their continual exploration. The Statute is therefore built on the regulatory programme of deferred compliance over time, which signals the path it needs to take, and that path has to follow channels that are necessarily federal.