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Argentina has been condemned five times by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for delays in issuing judicial rulings within a reasonable time and the resulting denial of justice. In two of these cases, the delays were attributable to judicial bodies in the province of Buenos Aires. This analysis examines these two Inter-American Court rulings, comparing them with the current state of the civil and commercial courts and the labor courts, based on statistical data from the Federal Board of Courts and Superior Courts of Justice of the Argentine Provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (JUFEJUS) and the Supreme Court of the Province of Buenos Aires (SCJBA). For the first ruling, the period analyzed is from 2013 to 2021, while for the second, it is from 2017 to 2021. We conclude that in the civil and commercial courts, the difference between the number of cases filed and those resolved annually is enormous, resulting in a significant backlog of cases. In the years before the electronic case file system was implemented (2013, 2014, and 2015), more cases were resolved than in subsequent years. Since 2017, there has been an increase in the resolution of cases, which then declined until 2021. The situation differs in labor courts, where the workload is lower. Thus, there was an increase in the number of cases resolved annually, which began rising in 2013 and decreased due to the pandemic, before recovering in 2021 with figures very close to pre-pandemic levels.
