By Resolution of 12 January 2021 of the State Secretariat for Territorial Policy and Civil Service, published in the Official State Gazette of 15 January, career officials were appointed, by the general system of free access of the Higher Body of Social Security Administration Lawyers.
The employees and public employees of this body are entrusted with the functions of legal assistance of the Social Security Administration, which consists of legal advice, as well as representation and defence in the judgment of their interests, in the terms provided for in the legislation.
Among its functions are: the representation and defence in the judgment of the Social Security Administration before any jurisdiction, Spanish, of the European Union and abroad; the representation and defence in those procedures in which the Social Security is concerned, its authorities, officials and employees, when the proceedings are followed by acts or omissions related to the exercise of their office; the actions that take place in matters of competition and in conflicts of competence.
Also, the advisory function: The issuance of reports and other legal advisory functions of the Social Security Administration; report complaints prior to the exercise of civil or labour actions by judicial means; assistance to Recruitment Bureaux, as well as other legal advisory functions provided for in the current regulations.
The selective process consists of a phase of opposition, consisting in the overcoming of five exercises, all of them eliminatory: two theoretical oral, two practical writings and a language test. The second phase consists of a selective course in order to combine the theoretical specialization of the opposition phase with forensic practice in general.
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