Spanish judicial taxes: UIA upholds CGAE’s actions and demands

In a letter addressed to Mr. Carlos Carnicer Diez, President of the Consejo General de la Abogacía Española (CGAE) on 12 December, the UIA expressed its deep concern about the contents of the provisions of the 10/2012 Act governing taxes pertaining to the Justice Administration and the National Institute of Toxicology and Medico-Legal Sciences, as well as to the subsequent changes in the Act and the 13/2013 Royal Act Decree.

The UIA believes that these judicial taxes are an obvious obstacle to the free access to justice and, in fine, to the right of citizens to freely assert their rights before Spanish judges and courts.

The general nature of these judicial taxes is likely to threaten low-income litigants far more than those who are better-off, in terms of asserting their rights, which is unacceptable.

It is for these reasons that the UIA expresses its full solidarity and support to the actions conducted and demands made by the CGAE and all the Spanish bars against these judicial taxes.