High Court of Justice of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla

This superseded the old Audiencias Territoriales and gave rise to a new judicial model adapted to the requirements of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the Statutes of Autonomy of the various autonomous communities.

The new territorial model and the new model of judicial power made it necessary to replace the two old courts—seated in Granada and Seville, respectively—with a single court for the whole of Andalusia, Ceuta, and Melilla, as well as the creation of the Divisions (Salas) of Civil and Penal Law and the Division of Social Law, to which new powers were attributed.

[1] In 1997 the Andalusian Autonomous Government transferred material and human resources to the TSJA, permitting the latter to gain more institutional importance within Andalusia.

This occurred in part because of a series of agreements increasing cooperation between the Andalusian Autonomous Government and the General Council of the Judiciary.

That clock used to be in an interior staircase; its old place was filled in 1806 by a marble medallion with the figure of King Charles III.

[2] In 1834, the status of the Chancery was reduced to that of an Audiencia, with jurisdiction over the provinces of Granada, Almería, Jaén and Málaga.