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8 unusual facts about Supreme Court of Spain


Alfredo Sáenz Abad

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Spain gave Sáenz a three-month ban from working as a banker, after a long legal action.

Luciano Varela

Since October 2007 Varela has served on the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court.

Luciano Varela Castro was a judge of the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra for 23 years, and has been a judge Spanish Judge of the Supreme Court of Spain since 2007.

Obradoiro CAB

2009–10 was its returning season to the Spanish top division, Liga ACB, after the Supreme Court conceded that the Júver Murcia committed improper alignment in a matchup in the 1990 promotion playoff.

Reimund Dietzen

Seventeen years later, the Supreme Court of Spain ordered the organisers of the Vuelta a España to pay damages to Dietzen.

Supreme Court of Spain

Supreme Court decisions can exceptionally be overruled by the Constitutional Court where there has been an infringement of rights and freedoms of citizens which are embodied in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 or by decisions emanating from the European Court of Human Rights because Spain is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights

Peer review is provided by the Supreme Judicial Council, which is a panel of senior Supreme Court judges that monitors the Supreme Court practice and operation, although the decisions of this Council are advisory, and may be annulled by due process in a Supreme Court action.

Valencian language controversy

In May 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court revoked the instruction ordered by the Valencian Education Department in 1995, which had established that validation of Catalan language qualifications issued by either the Catalan or Balearic autonomous governments no longer applied in the Valencian Community.



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