Activity of Committees of Inquiry in the light of Constitutional Court case-law Commentary on Constitutional Court judgments 107/2025 and 108/2025, of May 12. Concerning the appeals for legal protection nums. 5123-2021 and 5326-2021. (BOE num. 146, of June 18, 2025)
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This commentary examines two recent judgments of the Constitutional Court, Judgments 107/2025 and 108/2025, both delivered on 12 May 2025, concerning the investigative activities of parliamentary committees of inquiry. In doing so, they build upon the line of case law established by Judgments 133/2018 of 13 December and 77/2023 of 20 June. In these new decisions, the Constitutional Court has had the opportunity to systematize its jurisprudence on committees of inquiry, which has developed along two main lines. The first concerns the rights of individuals called to appear before such committees, while the second relates to the committees' investigative activities. Through these judgments, the Court has further clarified its case law by specifying the circumstances in which the inaction of parliamentary bodies may infringe the rights of those appearing before committees of inquiry and by further defining the scope of those rights.
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