The Palma City Council will have to compensate three residents of the bullring with 9,000 euros for the disturbances caused by concerts and nighttime shows held at the venue.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has recognized the legitimacy of the STEI union to challenge the pilot program for free choice of language promoted by the Ministry of Education and allows the appeal to proceed. The STEI had filed an administrative appeal against this program, which allows schools to modify the language projects approved by the school councils, but the Government had initially argued that the union lacked standing to file the lawsuit. However, the TSJIB ruling recognizes the STEI's "collective interest," since the measure directly affects teachers affiliated with the union by modifying their teaching practices and the conditions established by the schools' language projects. With this decision, the court allows the legal proceedings to continue and gives the green light to the STEI's legal battle. The union believes the pilot program was imposed on the PP by Vox's demands and lacks the support of any entity in the education sector. Furthermore, it has reiterated its demand for the program's withdrawal and for the millions of euros allocated to its implementation to be used to address real problems in the Balearic Islands' education system, such as student-teacher ratios, infrastructure, and support for diversity. According to STEI, the TSJIB's decision is an important step in defending teachers' rights and ensuring that any changes to language projects are agreed upon and respect the needs of the educational community.

The Supreme Court has upheld the 12-year prison sentence for one of the two men convicted in the Llucmajor highway murder case, in which a young German tourist was thrown from a moving van onto the road. The Criminal Chamber, in a ruling obtained by Europa Press, dismissed the appeal filed by the convicted man against the sentence handed down by the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB), which had already confirmed the conviction. in the first instance issued by the Jury Court of the Provincial Court of PalmaThe Supreme Court has upheld the 12-year prison sentence for homicide against one of the two defendants, a sentence that becomes final as no further appeals have been filed. The other defendant, on whose case the High Court did not rule, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The judges rejected the claims of the convicted killer's defense, which argued, among other things, that the rights to effective judicial protection and the presumption of innocence had been violated during the trial. Furthermore, the defense argued that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to prove that their client had been an accomplice in the homicide, which, according to their version of events, was committed by the other man in a "sudden and unexpected" manner, leaving the defendant, who was driving, powerless to intervene. At most, he added, he could have been convicted of failure to render aid, since he witnessed the events and left the victim in a dangerous situation.

The Provincial Court of Palma has sentenced a woman to 17 years in prison for killing her 91-year-old aunt and stuffing her body into a suitcase in Sineu. The defendant reached a plea agreement with the prosecution and admitted to the homicide charge, the Balearic Islands High Court (TSJIB) reported. The presiding judge of the jury trial, in a hearing held Friday morning, handed down the 17-year prison sentence and absolute disqualification from holding public office orally. The written judgment will be issued and made public in the coming days. According to the prosecution, the defendant took in her 91-year-old aunt, whom she cared for due to her progressive cognitive decline and the resulting memory lapses and difficulties walking and feeding herself. On April 14, 2024, he began to beat her "indiscriminately," sat on her, pressing his knees down on her, and stabbed her in the chest, causing her death. In an attempt to evade responsibility for these criminal acts, he tried to stage an accidental death and devised a plan to deceive both the medical services and the police. To do this, he scrubbed the floor, cleaned the blood from the furniture in the house, and placed the victim's lifeless body in a large suitcase. He then drove it to his home in Palma, from where he called the health center and emergency services, telling them that the woman had died and requesting a death certificate. The woman who confessed to the Sineu suitcase murder had already shown her willingness to reach the agreement that materialized this Friday and accepted the 17-year prison sentence requested by the prosecution. The woman agreed with the legal classification, facts, and penalties defended by the Public Prosecutor's Office and did not submit an alternative statement.

The Balearic Islands High Court (TSJB) has once again rejected the imposition of a 25% Spanish-language instruction requirement in classrooms. The court dismissed an appeal from a father who requested that his son receive at least 25% of his classes in Spanish at a school in Palma. In its ruling, issued a few weeks ago, the court stated that parents "have the right to choose the school, but not to impose a specific percentage of the language in a particular school."

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has recognized the right of the Royal Nautical Club of Palma (RCNP) to obtain an extension of its concession in the port of Palma, initially requested in 2015 and 2018. This obliges the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB) to grant the extension according to the terms agreed between both parties in March 2019.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has confirmed the sentence imposed by the Provincial Court on the former parish priest of Can Picafort, in the municipality of Santa Margalida, to two years and one day in prison for a crime of sexual abuse of a minor under 13 years of age.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has recognized the right of a primary school student to receive Islamic education in a public school in Palma. According to the ruling, which ARA Baleares has had access to, the Ministry of Education violated a constitutional right by failing to respond to the request made by her father.

The Balearic Islands will have more judges and courts in the medium term to deal with the constant increase in the number of cases, which in the last year has exceeded 200,000 for the first time. The increased decision-making capacity of the 143 judges and magistrates currently serving on the islands, at a rate of 1,332 cases per person, has gradually helped, as the 190,549 cases resolved in 2024 are still below the number of cases received by the courts.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJB) has once again urged the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) to conduct an extraordinary inspection of the second section of the Provincial Court due to its overcrowding.

The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB) has upheld the decision of a labor court in Palma to reject a work transfer to Alicante Airport, in order to care for his sick parents, requested by an Aena employee who works as a firefighter at the Son Bonet airfield (Marratxí).