Special Constitutional Relevance of Individual Appeals. Analysis of the Jurisprudence of the Spanish Constitutional Court Regarding an Ethereal Concept

Authors

  • Markus González Beilfuss

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/redc.107.10

Keywords:

Individual appeal, constitutional complaint, Constitutional Court, special constitutional relevance, fundamental rights

Abstract

The article analyses how the new requirement of the special constitutional relevance of individual appeals has been implemented since it was introduced in 2007. Based on statistical data and on more than 200 decisions in which the Constitutional Court has referred to the new requirement, this study offers a diachronic overview about how the new admission system of constitutional complaints has been used. It comes to the conclusion that the Constitutional Court has used the reform to put an end to the important amount of pending cases, but not to implement it from a more objective and constitutional conception of individual appeals. 

Issue

Section

JURISPRUDENCE. CRITICAL STUDIES