“It’s a reform with lights and shadows. The general critique I would make is that if the purpose of the reform is to expedite the criminal process, the modifications made in the Criminal Procedure Act (LA LEY 1/1882) do not seem to achieve that objective. That it will facilitate the practice of some procedures, there is no doubt. However, it is not possible to expedite the Administration of Justice by imposing more duties or obligations, or by increasing the complexity of some procedural steps, without a corresponding increase in budget and provision of more resources.

This does not mean that the reform efforts to digitalize the Administration of Justice are not positive. But one must be aware of the practical problems that this digitalization poses in the day-to-day judicial practice if the available means are not properly organized. To give an example, professionals see how sometimes it becomes absurdly complex—or even sometimes impossible—to merely display an electronic document to an investigated person, witness, or expert, to clarify some aspect about it (much of the blame for this lies with the—for many—hated ‘events,’ which have come to replace the traditional volumes and their pages).”