The Court has the power of judicial review over norms with lower rank than the law of the regional administrations.

The president has the rank of Magistrate of the Supreme Court and chairs over the Civil and Criminal Law Chamber.

As well as the Supreme Court, each Magistrate of the High Court is nominated by the General Council of the Judiciary and appointed by the Monarch for a lifetime tenure up to the age of 70, when they must retire, although they can request a 2 years extension.

The present High Court of Justice of Cantabria was created in 1985 from article 26 of the Organic Law of the Judicial Power, being constituted on 23 May 1989.

[4] The headquarters of the Court is in the Judicial Complex of Las Salesas, in Santander, the capital of Cantabria.