Catalans move to rescind Franco-era court martials
• Legislation introduced to anul verdicts against regime’s political opponents • 100,000 court martials, more than 4,400 executions in Catalonia under Franco…
Justice System
Court orders Franco ‘Valley of Fallen’ exhumations
• Remains of two union members executed in 1936 must be returned to families • First ruling on Franco victims buried alongside…
Greenpeace demands immediate demolition of Almeria beachfront hotel following High Court ruling
• Supreme Court rules hotel complex built in violation of zoning regulations • Greenpeace activists on Tuesday demanded the immediate demolition of…
Constitutional Court suspends Catalonia’s Foreign Ministry while hearing government’s legal challenge
• Ruling annuls Catalan ministry’s creation, activities for up to five months• Spain’s Constitutional Court has suspended all activity by Catalonia’s newly…
Supreme Court agrees to hear ‘discriminatory’ challenge to 2015 electricity ‘auto-consumo’ law
• Environmentalists, solar producers & consumer organisations filed lawsuit • Spain’s Supreme Court has agreed to consider a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace,…
Catalan secessionists move forward with creation of three new laws in challenge to Constitutional Court
• Laws stem from pro-independence resolution declared ‘unconstitutional’ • Members of the Catalonia’s small anti-capitalist CUP party voted with the pro-independence Junts…
Excavation team begins Spain’s first court-ordered exhumation of Franco-era mass grave in Guadalajara
• Timoteo Mendieta believed buried at a 1939 mass gravesite in Guadalajara • It took an Argentine court order and the cooperation…
Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal filed against controversial ‘sun tax’ on self-generated solar power
• Renewable producers say ‘sun tax’ penalizes solar to benefit of fossil fuels • The Supreme Court of Spain has agreed to…
Energy companies to challenge retroactive cuts to renewables in next session of Constitutional Court
• More than 400 appeals from companies, with 1.7 billion euros at stake • Spanish renewable energy companies say they will file…
Spain’s Constitutional Court rules Cataluña Independence resolution in violation of Constitution
• Unanimous decision says resolution in ‘absolute contradiction’ to Constitution • Catalan secessionists now risk prosecution if they choose to defy court…
Constitutional court suspends independence resolution, warns Catalan leaders on further action
• Constitutional Court issues 5-month injunction against resolution • Court decision warn Catalonia’s leaders over further implementation Spain’s highest court on constitutional…