Civil and Penal Chamber

Composed by a chairman – who is the chairman of the HcofJ – and two magistrates, currently competent to have knowledge of:

• Civil responsibility lawsuits for actions committed whilst practicing their respective positions, directed against the Chairman and members of the Governing Council in the autonomous community, and against members of the Legislative Assembly.
• Civil responsibility lawsuits for actions committed whilst practicing their respective positions, against all or the majority of the magistrates in a Provincial Court.
• The hearing and ruling of penal causes against judges, magistrates and members of the State Prosecution Service for crimes or offences committed whilst practicing their position in the autonomous community. 
• To decide regarding questions of competence among jurisdictional organs of penal order.
• Appeals against resolutions in the proceedings of the Judging Tribunal.

Chamber for Contentious and Administrative Matters 

1. The Chambers for Contentious and Administrative Matters of the High Courts of Justice will hear, as a last resort, appeals stemming from:

• the acts of local Entities and of Autonomous Communities Administrations, whose judgement had not been assigned to the Courts for Contentious and Administrative Matters;
• the general requirements stemming from Autonomous Communities or local Entities;
• the acts and requirements of the governing organs of the Autonomous Communities legislating Assemblies, and of the autonomic institutions analogous to the National Audit Office and the Ombudsman, in personal and administrative matters, and patrimonial administration;
• the acts and decisions pronounced by Regional and Local Courts for Economic and Administrative Matters, ending the Economic and Administrative channel;
• the rulings pronounced on appeal by the Central Court for Economic and Administrative Matters regarding transferred taxes;
• the acts and provisions of Provincial Electoral Committees and Autonomous Communities, as well as contentious electoral appeals against Electoral Committees agreements regarding the appointment of elected members and elections, and the appointment of local Corporation Chairmen as per the terms of electoral legislation;
• agreements among public Administrations with jurisdiction in the territorial area of the corresponding Autonomous Community;
• the banning or the proposal of modification of meetings envisaged in the Organic Law regulating the Right of Assembly;
• the acts and provisions pronounced by State General Administration organs with jurisdiction over the entire national territory and with an organic level below Minister or Secretary of State, regarding personal matters, special properties, and compulsory purchase;
• any other administrative actions not specifically assigned to the jurisdiction of other organs of this jurisdictional order.

2. They will hear, as a second resort, appeals lodged against sentences and committals pronounced by Courts for Contentious and Administrative Matters, and those relating to complaint appeals.

The Chamber for Social and Labour Matters

will hear:

• As a sole resort, the proceedings established by Law regarding proceedings related to workers’ and employers’ interests in matters superior to those of social and labour courts, and not superior to those of Autonomous Communities.
• The appeals established by law against decisions pronounced by Courts for Social and Labour Matters in the autonomous community, as well as petitions and other appeals contemplated by law against the decisions of autonomous community mercantile courts in labour matters, and those solving jurisdiction incidents in the same matters.
• Jurisdiction questions among courts for social and labour matters in Autonomous Communities.

Governing Chamber of the HCofJ of Extremadura:

It is composed of five permanent members – the Chairman of the HcofJ as chairman, two Chamber Chairmen, and two Provincial Courts Chairmen – and five elected members, one of them with the rank of Judge, acting as Governing Secretary of the High Court.

In general, its responsibilities are as follows:

• to approve the distribution regulations;
• to establish annually with objective criteria the precise shifts for the composition and running of the Chambers and Sections of the High Court and the Provincial Courts;
• to complete provisionally the composition of the Chambers…;
• to propose with due motivation to the General Council of the Judiciary the appointment of substitute magistrates;
• to perform disciplinary functions over magistrates, in the terms established by this law;
• to propose to the Chairman the performance of inspection and information visits that it considers appropriate;
• to promote the retiring procedure of Magistrates owing to incapacity, and advise them;
• to write the reports requested by the General Council of the Judiciary and the annual report;
• to propose to the General Council of the Judiciary the adoption of measures felt appropriate for the improvement of the Administration of Justice;
• to take the oath or affirmation of the legally warned magistrates constituting the different courts, and proceed to their appointment;
• to receive reports form the Governing Secretary, at his request or that of the actual Chamber, about all matters which – because they affect either the judicial offices or the judicial secretaries under his jurisdiction – may require some kind of action; 
• to issue appointments of Justices of the Peace.