Los tribunales superiores de justicia. Balance de tres décadas.

The High Courts of Justice are an innovation brought to the Judiciary by the Constitution. We had to wait a decade for them to be constituted. They do not belong to the Autonomous Regions but, insofar as they preside the judicial organisation in each Autonomous Region, they interpret their own Law and control the action of their public powers, with which they have been identified. Their jurisdictional action, which extends to the application of State and European Union Law, is governed by the principles of independence and impartiality and by their exclusive subjection to the rule of law and its responsibility. Based on these assumptions, they provide the same treatment to the State, to the Autonomous Communities and to the other territorial public entities. They are a fundamental backbone of judicial organisation and the main problems they face are the insufficiency of staff and the lack of the personal and material resources required to perform their function properly. The complexity of the distribution of powers in the field of the Administration of Justice and the insufficient coordination significantly complicate the provision of these means and give rise to dysfunctions that must be remedied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]