The General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) has approved this Thursday to reinforce with another judge, for at least six months, the Courts of First Instance and Instruction numbers 1 and 2 of the Cadiz town of Barbate. The measure aims to unclog a situation that the Barbate judges described as "worrying" in a letter sent on February 14 to the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia.
"This situation of work overload, especially in the criminal order, is impossible to alleviate with a single judge at the head of the court, and this is my request, the appointment of a support/reinforcement judge," explains the judge Mara Fernández Nimo. The reinforcement of the Barbate courts will consist of the assignment of the substitute judge Maria Eulalia Chanfreut, who was already working in them, covering sick leave, but now remains in support of the main judge.