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Practicum Judicial (GED70420)

General information

Type:

OP

Curs:

4

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

5 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Marc García Solé Derecho ESP

Workload distribution

Workload distribution:
Activities:
- Classroom activities: 30%
- Guided activities: 50%
- Independent study: 20%

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

This Legal Practicum is designed as an optional course aimed at ESADE Law School students who are taking the fifth year of their Law Degree. Although the course is compulsory to develop the skills required for professional practice.

Course Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide students with access to legal firms in order that they gain experience of undertaking legal activities of a public nature, as well as others that the Judge or Magistrate tutor in terms of their academic role consider relevant.
The student will become able to recognise and understand the day to day functioning of the courts and tribunals, as well as the resolution of civil cases and the functioning of the examining magistrate's court, both in regard to its role as the duty magistrate's court and for the resolution of incidences.

Competences

24. Team management
9. Autonomy, independence, initiative, pro-activeness
10. Adaptability, flexibility

CONTENT

1. CIVIL ORDER

1.- The judicial office. Its members and different entities and civil servants. Roles of each of them. The distribution and register of civil affairs. Procedural communication stages. The function of the Procurator. The common notification service. Senior Court and the Judges' Council. The recording system for hearings and trials.

2.- The verbal trial (I). The succinct law suit. The unity of the allegations and evidence phase. The hearing: the judicial management and the role of the attorneys. The different phases of the hearing: allegations, proposition and practice regarding evidence.

3.- The verbal trial (II) Regarding the case, the formulation of conclusions in the verbal trial.The contestation of resolution in the verbal trial. Alternatives to mitigate the rigour of the principal of concentration in the verbal trial: suspension and interruption of the hearings. Most frequent scenarios.

4.- The full trial (I). The functions of the preliminary hearing: the conciliatory function and the amendment of exceptional procedures function. Reference to the most frequent procedural exceptions: defect in the way of proposing the law suit, lack of necessary passive joint litigation, litispendence or res judicata. Allegation, resolution and contestation of procedural exceptions.

5.- The full trial (II). The functions of the preliminary hearing. The delimiting function of the terms of debate and proposition and the admission of evidence. The establishment of the disputed deeds. The judgement of the means of evidence. The contestation of the admissibility or inadmissibility of the means of evidence.

6.- The practice regarding the means of evidence in the verbal trial and the full trial. Legal order regarding the practice of the means of evidence. Practice regarding the examination of the parties and the examination of the witnesses. Requirements for the questions. The judgement on the admissibility and inadmissibility of questions. Contestation of the admissibility and inadmissibility of questions. Indemnification of witnesses.

7.- The practice regarding the means of evidence in the verbal trial and the full trial. The contradiction of the experts' report. Scope of the attorneys' contribution.

2. CRIMINAL ORDER:

1. Investigation Phase. The functions fulfilled by the Judge, the Public Prosecution Service and the Forensic Medical Service. The accusation and defence. The Judicial Police. The Duty Magistrate's Court.

2.- Preliminary procedures. Inception. The principal measures to adopt.

3.- The restrictive fundamental rights measures. Provisional prison sentence. Hearing for the adoption of provisional prison sentence.

4.- The practice regarding evidence during the investigation phase. Special consideration for the detainee or accused.

5.- The practice regarding evidence during the investigation phase. Entry and search procedure. Telephone tapping practice.

6.- Summary trial. The role of the attorneys.

Relation between Activities and Contents

1 2
Attendance    
Participation    
Final exam: practical case study on one of the course topics.    

Methodology

This course will combine lecture classes and practical session that are undertaken in the courts.

There will be 19 sessions scheduled as follows:

5 practical sessions.
Lecturer-Tutor: A Court of First Instance Magistrate-Judge


5 practical sessions.
Lecturer-Tutor: A Barcelona Examining Magistrate's Court Magistrate-Judge

The practical sessions will involve observing the day to day work of the Court of the First Instance and the Examining Magistrate's Court. Students should focus their attention on the aspects set out in the programme.

4 classroom sessions in the ESADE Law School:
Dr Xavier Abel Lluch. Lecturer of the Law School ESADE-URL. Magistrate on leave of absence.
1 introductory session: aims of the practicum and review of procedural notions.
2 monitoring sessions: contrast activity of the teaching messages following the 5 first practical sessions and consolidation notions.
1 evaluation session: as stipulated by the programme.

Bibliography

Short bibliography or additional material:
See the course webpage.

LECTURERS TUTORS: Magistrates of the Court of the First Instance and Examining Magistrate's Court.

COURT OF THE FIRST INSTANCE:

Ortiz Rodríguez, Carmen.
Magistrada-Juez Juzgado Primera Instancia nº 7 l'Hospitalet
Telephone: 93. 554.82 40
e-mail: ciortiz@xij.gencat.cat
Address: Av. Carrilet, nº 2 (ciutat judicial)

Vilar Büler, Marcos
Magistrado-Juez Juzgado Primera Instancia nº 1 l'Hospitalet
Telephone: 935 548 175
e-mail: mvilarb@xij.gencat.net
Address: Av. Carrilet, nº 2 (ciutat judicial)

Queral Carbonell, Anna.
Magistrada-Juez Juzgado Primera Instancia nº 34 Barcelona
Telephone: 935 549 434
e-mail: aequeral@xij.gencat.cat
Address: Gran via de les Corts Catalanes, 111

Ríos López, Yolanda.
Magistada- Juez Juzgado Primera Instancia nº 4 Mercantil
Telephone: 93.554.94.65
e-mail:yrios@xij.gencat.cat
Address: Gran Via de les Cortes Catalanes, 111, edifici C.

Pellicer, Berta
Magistrada-Juez del Juzgado Primera Instancia nº 53 Barcelona
Telephone: 93.554.94. 53
e-mail:bpellicer@xij.gencat.cat
Address: Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 111, edifici C.


MAGISTRATE'S COURT:

Juzgado de Instrucción nº 5 Barcelona
Representative: Asunción González Ferrero
e-mail: magonzalez@xij.gencat.net
Telephone: 935 548 605
Address: Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 111

Juzgado de Instrucción nº 11 Barcelona
Representative: Il.lmo. Sr. Dº Francisco Gonzalez Maillo
e-mail: fgonzalez@xij.gencat.net
Telephone: 935 548 611
Address: Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 111

Juzgado de Instrucción nº 22
Representative: Il.lmo. Dº Juan Emilio Vila Mayo
e-mail: jevila@xij.gencat.net
Telephone: 935 548 622
Address: Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 111

Juzgado de Instrucción nº 26
Representative: Il.lma. Dª Roser Aixandri Tarré
e-mail: raixandri@xij.gencat.net
Telephone: 935 548 626
Address: Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 111.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Marc García Solé Derecho

Horari

Thursday 2015/9/17 from 10:00 to 11:00.

From 2015/10/1 to 2015/12/10:
Each Thursday from 10:00 to 14:00.

Wednesday 2015/12/16 from 16:00 to 19:00.

Thursday 2016/6/30 from 16:00 to 19:00.