Ms Ortega worked for more than twenty years, from 1994 to 2017, for a company providing administrative services to entities within the financial sector. On numerous occasions, both verbally and by email, she raised internal complaints alleging that she was… Read more

Commentary on the Judgment of the National High Court (First Section, Contentious-Administrative Chamber) No. 139/2026 dated 18 March 2026.   The National High Court Judgment No. 139/2026, which is the subject of this commentary, stems from the contentious- No. 894/2023,… Read more

Analysis of Judgment No. 1734/2026 of 16 February 2026 handed down by the Provincial Court of Madrid (30th Criminal Division). This commentary analyses the recent Judgment No. 1734/2026 of 16 February 2026 handed down by the Madrid Provincial Court, which… Read more

Supreme Court preserves interim protection for Renfe’s in-house legal communications The scope of confidentiality surrounding communications between a company and its in-house lawyers remains a matter of controversy. May an authority access emails, reports and notes exchanged between a company’s… Read more

Case Note on Judgment No. 5487/2026 of the High Court of Justice of Madrid (Labour Chamber), 16th April 2026   Abstract The judgment rules on the appeal filed by an employee, who contends that his dismissal should not have been classified as unfair, as held by the court of first instance, but rather declared null and… Read more

By Albert Estrada and Clara Tarrés, members of Molins Investigaciones Internas The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI, hereinafter) in our daily lives and in the workplace is now a reality. The numbers speak for themselves: three years after its… Read more

With regulatory compliance now firmly established in Spain, Law 2/2023 fully implemented and the Independent Whistleblower Protection Authority (AINPI) having commenced operations, by 2025 internal investigations had become an established feature of the legal landscape for medium-sized and large companies… Read more

Commentary on STSJ Navarra (Social Chamber) No. 302/2025, of 4 September The Labour Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Navarre has upheld a lower court ruling declaring null and void the disciplinary sanction imposed by a company in… Read more

Judgment of the High Court of Justice of Logroño, Labour Chamber, No. 106/2025, of 28 July, p. González González In this ruling, the High Court of Justice of Logroño upholds the lower court’s decision to dismiss the claim for unfair… Read more

This publication analyses the ruling dated 13 March 2025, handed down by Section 2 of the Provincial Court of Burgos, in which the focus of the debate centres on the communication to the works council of the full content of… Read more

Commentary on the Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 6 November 2025, Guyvan v. Ukraine In the recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 6 November 2025, the Fifth Section of the Court… Read more

This publication analyses the judgment dated 13 February 2025 handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, ‘ECHR’) in the case of Macharik v. Czech Republic, which upheld a claim for violation of fundamental rights enshrined in the… Read more

This publication analyzes the judgment dated February 18, 2025, handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “ECHR”) in the case of Romanchenko and Kharazishvili v. Georgia, which upheld a claim for violation of Article 8 (right to… Read more

In this commentary, we analyze the Judgment issued on January 14, 2025, by the Second Section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of N.Ö. v. Turkey (Application no. 24733/15). The national proceedings were initiated following… Read more

Spanish Supreme Court (administrative Chamber) Judgement n.º 704/2025, 4th June, judge rapporteur: Requero Ibáñez. The facts that are the subject of the resolution commented refer to an official of penitentiary institutions who, after giving an interview on the television program… Read more

This publication discusses Supreme Court Labour Chamber Ruling No. 23/2025, handed down on 14 January 2025. This ruling upholds an appeal for the unification of doctrine filed by the company STRADIVARIUS ESPAÑA S.A. against the ruling handed down on 18… Read more

Commentary on Supreme Court Ruling (Criminal Chamber) Section 1, No. 457/2025 of 21 May. By means of Supreme Court Ruling No. 457/2025 of 21 May, the First Section of the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal and… Read more

One of the decisive factors for the Spanish Supreme Court when tipping the balance in assessing the legality of evidence obtained with a potential violation of fundamental rights lies, perhaps surprisingly, in the subjective position of the agent who carried… Read more

Can Parliament, in the exercise of its investigative function, name the political perpetrators of a tragedy without violating their presumption of innocence or damaging their honor? The case of Manuel Azuaga, former president of AENA, reopens a relevant debate on… Read more

Commentary on the sanction imposed by the AEPD in case EXP202411409: a fine of €120,000.00 for revealing the identity of the informant through an ethical channel. From the Internal Investigations teams, we often find ourselves in the position of managing… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2024 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF

This publication comments on the Judgment of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (Social Division) No. 6779/2024 handed down on 23 September 2024. This judgment dismissed the appeal filed by the legal representation of an employee against the judgment… Read more

This publication comments on STSJ no. 1850/2024, dated July 23, issued by the First Section of the Fourth Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country, which upheld an appeal filed by an employee against a judgment… Read more

Article 18 of the Workers’ Statute. Commentary on judgment (Social chamber), Secc. 1.ª, n.º 874/2024, of 5 June. This publication comments the judgment (social chamber), Secc. 1.ª, n.º 874/2024, of 5 June, which analyses the validity or nullity of the… Read more

Comments on STS (Sala de lo social), Secc. 1.ª, n. º 225/2024, of 6 February. In its recent ruling no. 225/2024 of 6 February, the First Section of the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the nullity of the… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of year’s 2023 normative and case-law milestones on Internal Investigations. Download PDF

Comment to the Judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid no.  405/2023, of 8 June, rapporteur Maria del Carmen Prieto Fernández. Subject matter: corporate control of WhatsApp conversations held by an employee on a corporate mobile phone. Scope… Read more

On 11 September 2023, the Constitutional Court handed down Ruling no. 92/2023. In this decision, the Court ruled on a request for defence which, according to the Court, is of particular constitutional importance in relation to the fundamental right to… Read more

Last July, ISO 37008 was published, consisting of a guide for conducting internal investigations in any kind of organization. The standard comes after the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1937, on the protection of whistleblowers, in most of the countries of… Read more

On September 18, 2023, was published in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Resolution of September 14, 2023, under which the Catalan Competition Authority opens a public call for subsidies to finance Compliance programs aimed to prevent antitrust irregularities. The subsidies contemplated in this call are… Read more

Ethical channels have acquired great relevance since the recent and novel publication of Law 2/2023, of February 20, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory infringements and the fight against corruption (hereinafter Law 2/2023). Although Law 2/2023 has encouraged… Read more

Just a week before the publication in Spain of Act 2/2023 of February 20th, 2023, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory infringements and of fight against corruption, transposing Directive 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and Council of 23rd… Read more

Molins’ Internal Investigations team presents a summary of 2022, with a brief summary of the milestones set by the last exercise on private inquiries within the company. Although the discipline is still at its beginning in Spain, last year was… Read more