On Tuesday, the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, appointed prosecutor Emilio Sánchez Ulled (Lleida, 1966), who is currently serving on special services in the European Union, to fill the newly created position of prosecutor for crimes against public administration. It was a controversial appointment because the members of the majority Association of Prosecutors abstained, expressing their opposition to the potential invasion of powers by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Spain to pay €4,200 in compensation for "moral damages" to each of the Catalan judges who had appealed to the Strasbourg court after their case was dismissed in the State. The personal data and ID cards of the 33 Catalan judges who had signed a manifesto in favour of an independence referendum were leaked to the conservative daily La Razón in February 2014, a few months before the the 9 November vote on independence. The newspaper published an extensive article with the magistrates' names and ID photos.

Constitutional Court has again signed a unanimous ruling putting an end to a run of disagreements between magistrates in recent months. Upholding the ruling against Artur Mas over the 2014 independence vote has again generated consensus, which has dismissed the former Catalan president's appeal for protection. It opposes all allegations and at one point in the sentence reproaches him for invoking the possible violation of some rights to justify his conduct of contempt for the orders of the Constitutional Court.

The causes of the Catalan independence bid, in a broad sense, have not only had effects on those being investigated or convicted, but have had a full impact on the functioning of the Generalitat and all its machinery. With the 155 and the judicial processes for the 9-N, the 1-O and the investigations with millionaire bails in the Court of Auditors, the Catalan administration has been stressed and the civil servants in charge of the legal and economic management areas are going ahead with a lead foot when stamping their signature on any decision. "There has been a kind of psychosis", says a good connoisseur of the backstage of the Generalitat, while another official notes that what was once ordinary has become "extraordinary" and costs much more to do than years ago.

The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of former president Artur Mas and part of his last government against the conviction of the Court of Auditors for the 9-N. In November 2018, the auditing body condemned the former president and the former ministers Joana Ortega, Francesc Homs and Irene Rigau and six senior officials to return nearly five million euros spent due to the 9-N (2014 Catalan self-determination voting process). After filing an appeal in the same Court of Auditors -which caused the fine to rise to 5.8 million euros with interest-, they had a free hand to go to the Supreme Court, which almost two years after they filed the appeal has decided not to admit it for processing, in a resolution to which ARA has had access.