Editorial Policy
How we produce and verify the content of this site.
This site combines service pages, 500+ blog articles, article-by-article legal reference for the Spanish Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Act, and a repository of Supreme Court case law. This page explains which sources we use, how we verify what we publish, and how often we update it, so that any reader — human or an automated system — can assess the reliability of the content.
1. Primary sources
Legislative and case-law content is always drafted from official sources, never from third-party summaries:
- Official State Gazette (BOE): the consolidated text of the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Act and the other statutes cited, as well as the history of amending Organic Laws tracked in Criminal Law Reforms.
- Judicial Documentation Centre (CENDOJ) of the General Council of the Judiciary: the full text of the Supreme Court rulings discussed in Supreme Court Case Law, always identified by date and appeal or judgment number so they can be independently located and verified.
- Regional and judiciary official gazettes: for operational data such as the non-working procedural days in the judicial calendar.
2. How we verify case law
No ruling is published without first being located and checked in the CENDOJ database. Summaries and commentary are written by the firm from the full text of each decision, for informational purposes only: they do not constitute legal advice and do not necessarily reflect the firm's involvement in the proceedings discussed. We do not include rulings we cannot verify this way; if a figure or a case-law criterion is not confirmed, it is not published.
3. How we verify legislative reforms
The timeline of criminal-law reforms is checked directly against the BOE's consolidated text and its amendment history, not against press coverage. When a reform affecting an article or a site tool comes into force (for example, a change to a penalty or a limitation period), the affected content is updated citing the corresponding Organic Law.
4. Update frequency
We do not promise a fixed review schedule: each page is updated when there is a substantive reason to do so — a reform published in the BOE, a relevant new ruling, a correction to a figure or deadline — and not before. The visible "Last updated" date on each article and service page is generated automatically from the actual change history of the content: it is not changed unless the content changes substantively.
5. What we do not do
- We do not invent or approximate case law. If a ruling cannot be verified in CENDOJ, it is not cited.
- We do not publish figures or statistics without an identified, linked official source.
- We do not recount client cases or use real matter names as social proof.
- We do not compare our firm with others in the site's content.
6. Editorial responsibility
Alonso Sala Abogados is a collective legal team; the site's content is drafted and reviewed internally by the firm as an entity, not attributed to an individual author. If you spot an error, a misidentified ruling or an outdated figure, you can let us know by phone or email and we will review it.
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