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Procedural Law I

Code: 102207 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Law OB 3

Contact

Name:
Nuria Reynal Querol
Email:
nuria.reynal@uab.cat

Teachers

Francisco Ramos Romeu
Jose Luis Rodriguez Torres
Maria Arantzazu Libano Beristain
Miryam Olivera Oliva
Cristina Cortés Oliva

Teaching groups languages

You can view this information at the end of this document.


Prerequisites

For attending this course previous enrollment in Constitutional Law, Civil Law and Criminal Law is recommended during 1st and 2nd years of the Degree of Law; all these courses offer basic training in relation to the legal system and without them the contents of Procedural Law I cannot be properly understood nor analysed. 

This field will be taught fully from the ODS perspective. 

Group 01: 

Theory: Prof. Núria Reynal (catalan) 

Seminar 11: Prof. Cristina Cortés (catalan) 

Seminar 12: Prof. Miryam Olivera (catalan)

Seminar 13: Prof. Núria Reynal (catalan)

Group 02:

Theory: Prof. Francisco Ramos (spanish) 

Seminar 21: Prof. Arantza Lbano (spanish) 

Seminar 22: Prof. Lluís Rodríguez (catalan)

Seminar 23: Prof. Francisco Ramos (spanish)

Gorup 51:

Theory: Prof. Arantza Libano (spanish) 

Seminar 511: Prof. Cristina Cortés (spanish) 

Seminar 512: Prof. Miryam Olivera (spanish)

Seminar 513: Prof. Arantza Libano (spanish) 

Group 70:

Theory: Prof. Núria Reynal (catalan) 

Seminar 70: Prof. Lluís Rodríguez (catalan)

Seminar 71: Prof. Núria Reynal (catalan)


Objectives and Contextualisation

Main objective of this course is a good knowledge and understanding of the basic elements of the  process system, especially criminal process system: courts, parties and trials.

Competences

  • Acquiring the basic knowledge from the several legal dogmas and presenting them in public.
  • Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
  • Drawing up legal texts (contracts, judgements, sentences, writs, rulings, wills, legislation...).
  • Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
  • Identifying, knowing and applying the basic and general principles of the legal system.
  • Memorising and utilising legal terminology.
  • Working in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.
  • Working in teams, being either a member or a coordinator of working groups, as well as making decisions affecting the whole group.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Defining the basic procedural concepts.
  2. Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
  3. Distinguishing the procedural and non-procedural documents of the several procedural fields.
  4. Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
  5. Identifying the arisen procedural problems and looking for a solution for them in the several sources and resources studied.
  6. Identifying the procedural issues presented in every practical case.
  7. Managing the sources and resources needed in order to find the solutions to the practical cases.
  8. Relating the basic procedural concepts to the rest of legal disciplines.
  9. Using the legal procedural language.
  10. Working in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.
  11. Working in teams, being either a member or a coordinator of working groups, as well as making decisions affecting the whole group.

Content

Lesson 1:Functions of the process. Sources of the procedural law. 

Lesson 2: Constitucional guarantees of the proceeding. 

Lesson 3: Jurisdictional organisation. 

Lesson 4: The procedural acts.

Lesson 5: Criminal prodecution systems. Object of the criminal trial. 

Lesson 6: Criminal jurisdiction and competence. 

Lesson 7: Parties in the criminal process. 

Lesson 8: Ordinary criminal trials. 

Lesson 9: Criminal investigation. 

Lesson 10: Criminal precautionary measures. 

Lesson 11: The trial stage. 

Lesson 12: Conclusion of the criminal trial. Judgement. Appeals in criminal trial. Execution. 


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
master classes 22 0.88 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 9
seminars 22 0.88 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 11, 9, 7
Type: Autonomous      
assessement 5 0.2 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
students personal work 86 3.44 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 9, 7

Students learning process in this course is organised around three types of activities:

1.DIRECTED ACTIVITIES

Directed activities are performed in classroom during class-hours under the direction of lecturers. They are divided into two typologies: 

a) Master classes: In these sessions lecturers, based on the applicable Law, will explain different contents of the course. It is necessary that all students have an updated compilation of procedural normative.

b) Seminars: In these sessions, students, alone or in groups, will carry out activities in the classroom, under the direction of lecturers. This activities may consist in case resolutions, analysis and discussion of court judgements, drafting of legal briefs, oral presentation, etc. Attendance at seminars, except in some case oj justified reason, will be compulsory for students. 

2.SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES 

They mainly consist in tutoring sessions between students and lecturers, when necessary for the support of the learning process. 

3.AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES

In these activities students, alone or in group, organise their time and effort autonomously.

Autonomous activities include, among others, search and study of bibliography, elaboration of drafts or summaries, search of case-law and preparation of scored activities afterwards in classroom corrected.   

In this course most of the autonomous activities are connected to the following-up of theoretical classes, elaboration of practical activities and preparation for the exam. 

 

 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
exam theory and/or practic 50% 5 0.2 1, 2, 4, 8, 9
group practical activities 25% 5 0.2 2, 3, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 9, 7
individual practical activities 25% 5 0.2 2, 3, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 9, 7

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT MODEL:

-There will be 3 scored activities, distributed throughout the course.

-At the beginning of the course, the lecturer of each group will indicate the specific date for these scored activities.

-The 3 scored activities are stated below and have the following weighting in the final grade:

1) group practical activities and participation: 25%

2) two individual practical activities: 25% 

3) theoretical and/or practical exam: 50%   

-Group and individual practical activities will generally take place in seminars. Attendance at seminars is compulsory and involves completing the assigned tasks in class and participating orally throughout the various sessions.

-In addition, the teaching staff may establish mechanisms to encourage attendance at theory classes, which, if applicable, will be outlined on the first day of class and/or on the virtual campus.

-The final grade of de course will be the average grade of the different activities. The criteria for calculating this average are as follows:

 

  • The mark obtained in group practical activities and participation will only be considered if 70% of the seminars where these activities are held have been attended. Not attending 70% of these seminars means losing the percentage (25%) that these activities contribute to the final mark. The 30% of these seminars that can be skipped includes ordinary situations that may cause student absences.
  • The mark obtained in individual practical activities will average regardless of the grade achieved.
  • The mark obtained in the exam must be at least 5 out of 10 to be able to average with the other grades.

-Students wwil be assessed as long as they have completed a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total mark. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this limit, the lecturer may considerer the student as not avaluable. 

  

REEVALUATION:

-Students who does not pass the continuous assessment  may be elegible for the reevaluation-exam.

-Practicat activites will no be re-evaluated. 

-For the reevaluation-exam students must at least have a 3'5 (out of 10) in the average grade of the course. 


SINGLE EVALUATION MODEL: 

Students will be assessed on the basis of a unique evaluation. This evaluation will include three types of activities:

a)      Theoretical exam (50%). The format will be multiple choice. Duratio: 60 minutes.

b)      Case paper (25%): The question(s) formulated in the case paper will have to be answered. The student can use the Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal and the Llei Orgànica del Poder Judicial in this activity. Duration: 60 minutes.

c)      Oral presentation (25%) before a University Tribunal: Two sectionsor subsections of the programme wil be offered and the student must select one to present it orally. The student will be given a maximum of 10 minutes to prepare the presentation; next, the student will make the oral defence (5 minutes), and, finally, the student will answer the questions arisen by teaching staff. 

To pass the course, the student needs a minimum score of 2,5 points in the exam, 1,25 points in the oral presentation and 1,25 points in the case paper.

Only failed activity will be subject to re-evaluation. 

The same rule of not avaluable will be applied as for continuous assessment. 

 

REVIEWING PROCESS:

-After the elaboration and qualification of every scored activity, lecturers will set a date to review the activity for those students that are interested. 

 

FRAUDULENT CONDUCT:  

Students who cheats or try to cheat an exam will have a 0 as a grade. Students who submits a paper o practical in which there is evidence of plagiarism will have a 0 as a grade and will receive a warning. In case of repetition, the students will fail the subject. 

 

USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

During seminar-classes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks (such as information research, language tools or translations). The student must clearly identify the parts that have been generated with such technology and specify the tools used. Non-transparency in the use of AI in the assessable activities of the subject will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or to more serious penalties in certain cases.


Bibliography

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY:

* CACHÓN CADENAS, Manuel; Introducción al enjuiciamiento civil, Atelier, Barcelona, last edition. 

* RAMOS MÉNDEZ, Francisco; Enjuiciamiento criminal.13ª lectura constitucional, Atelier, Barcelona, last edition (available in UAB digital library).

 

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

* ARMENTA DEU, Teresa; Lecciones de Derecho Procesal Penal, Marcial Pons, Madrid, last edition.

* CERVELLÓ DONDERIS, Vicenta; Derecho penitenciario,Tirant lo blanch, Valencia, last edition (available en UAB digital library).

* CORTES DOMÍNGUEZ, Valentín; MORENO CATENA, Víctor; Derecho procesal penal, Tirant lo blanch,Valencia, last edition (available in UAB digital library).

* GIMENO SENDRA, Vicente;  Derecho procesal penal, Dykinson, Madrid, last edition (available in UAB digital library). 

* GÓMEZ COLOMER, Juan Luís; BARONA VILAR, Silvia; Introducción al Derecho Procesal. Derecho Procesal I, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, last edition (available in UAB digital library). 

* GÓMEZ COLOMER, Juan Luís; BARONA VILAR, Silvia; Proceso Penal. Derecho Procesal III, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, last edition (available in UAB digital library). 

* MONTERO AROCA, Juan et al; Derecho jurisdiccional, vol.III (Proceso penal), Tirant lo blanch,Valencia, last edition (available in UAB digital library).

* NAVARRO VILLANUEVA, Carmen; Ejecución de la pena privativa de libertad, Juruà, Porto, last edition (available in UAB digital library).

 


Software

No especific software is used


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 11 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 12 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 13 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 21 Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 22 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 23 Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 511 Spanish first semester afternoon
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 512 Spanish first semester afternoon
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 513 Spanish first semester afternoon
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 701 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 702 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 2 Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 51 Spanish first semester afternoon
(TE) Theory 70 Catalan first semester morning-mixed