By Welex, your criminal defence lawyers in Marbella and multilingual barristers in Spain

Of all the investigating courts in Spain, how do you determine which one is competent to investigate a case in a judicial district? This is known as territorial jurisdiction. In these lines we will address the so-called forum comissi delicti, or place of commission of the crime as a basic principle for the attribution of jurisdiction.

Thus, the investigating judge of the place where the offence is committed will be competent to investigate the offence. However, the apparent transparency of this principle of attribution of jurisdiction is not without conflict situations, such as continuous crimes, those committed simultaneously in several places and those committed by the media.

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La entrada Criminal field IV: The jurisdiction of judges and courts in Spain se publicó primero en Lawyers Costa del Sol Spain.