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Carpeta Justicia — Spain's AI-Assisted Plain-Language Summaries and Anonymisation for Judicial Files

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 93% 27/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Spain's Ministry of Justice built Carpeta Justicia, a portal covering 12 territories and 700,000+ users, that uses AI to summarise judicial documents in plain language and anonymise data — though officials disclose no technical detail on the AI.

~45%
Population coverage (as of 2026)
700,000+
Registered users (as of April 2026)
400,000+
New users added (15 months to April 2026)
12
Territories live (as of 2026)

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Ministerio de la Presidencia, Justicia y Relaciones con las Cortes (Spain's Ministry of Justice)
Period
2023–present (phased rollout)
Keywords
justice, digital government, legal tech, citizen services

Context

Carpeta Justicia is a personal online space, built under Spain's Royal Decree-Law 6/2023 justice-transformation programme and funded through the EU's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, that lets citizens consult judicial files, book appointments, download certificates and pay judicial deposits from a single portal.

Objectives

Independent coverage describes two AI features layered onto the platform: automatic summarisation of judicial documents and rulings into language understandable without legal training, and automatic anonymisation, stripping personal data from documents before they are shared or published.

Activities

Rollout has been gradual: as of 2026 the service is live in Madrid, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Murcia, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, La Rioja, Asturias and Galicia.

Results

The service reaches roughly 45% of Spain's population, with over 700,000 registered users and more than 400,000 new users added in the fifteen months to April 2026.

Conclusions

The evidence here is real but incomplete: user and coverage figures come from two independent secondary sources that agree closely on the AI feature descriptions, but the Ministry's own official Carpeta Justicia page does not mention AI at all, and no technical documentation, model name, accuracy figures or audit of the summarisation/anonymisation features has been published.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Funded through Spain's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (EU-backed) under Royal Decree-Law 6/2023; no AI-specific budget figure published.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Programme running 2023–present with a phased regional rollout; over 400,000 new users added in the 15 months to April 2026.
Staffing & skills
Ministerio de la Presidencia, Justicia y Relaciones con las Cortes (implementing ministry; specific technical team not detailed in sources)

Conditions for success

  • formal legal backing via Royal Decree-Law 6/2023
  • EU Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan funding
  • phased region-by-region rollout rather than a single national launch

Common failure modes

  • the Ministry's own official page does not disclose AI use, and no technical or accuracy documentation for the AI features has been published

Where it fits

Governance type
national government, phased regional rollout
Scale
12 of Spain's territories live, ~45% of population
Income level
high-income (Spain, EU)

Commonly funded by

Recovery and Resilience Facility (national plans) National / regional programmes

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