The province of Girona will receive 12 new judge positions in 2026, according to the distribution set by the Spanish Government. Of these, three will be allocated to the Audiència Provincial de Girona (one for the 1st civil section and two for the civil section), while the remaining nine will be distributed among six judicial districts in the area.
The city of Girona will concentrate four of the nine positions destined for the courts of first instance: three for the civil section of the Tribunal d’Instància de Girona and one for the social section. The other judicial districts receiving one new position (civil and instruction section) are Santa Coloma de Farners, Olot, La Bisbal d’Empordà, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, and Figueres.
This is the largest creation of judicial positions in a single year in history and a new step in the ambitious transformation of Justice.
This expansion is part of a national plan that foresees the creation of 500 judicial positions across the entire State, of which 91 correspond to Catalonia. The distribution is based on objective criteria such as litigation rates and population, in accordance with workload reports from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
The creation of these five hundred positions is possible thanks to the implementation of the Law on the Efficiency of the Public Justice Service. This regulation replaces the old single-judge courts with collegiate courts of instance, which operate with a single technical support Judicial Office, reducing the cost of creating a position from 500,000 euros to approximately 100,000 euros.
