Aforamiento: making us unequal before the law and wreaking havoc in bilingual dictionaries
When the King of Spain Juan Carlos de Borbón decided to call it a day and abdicate, he put everyone into a frenzy, the...
European court points out the bleeding obvious
The European Court of Justice yesterday ruled Spain’s eviction laws to be incompatible with EU law on unfair terms in consumer contracts. The decision...
SOS Spain: It’s the transition’s fault!
On top of the never-ending financial crisis, we now have a political crisis. The Bárcenas (ex-treasurer of the governing Partido Popular (PP)) and Ana...
Enforcing contracts: English resource on civil procedure in Spain
Here’s quite a useful resource on civil procedure in Spain from the International Finance Corporation that has a nice explanation in English of what...
Hammered into austerity
Now it’s getting depressing. Every day, it seems, the Spanish government announces new austerity measures that promise to reduce our standard of living or...
Spain’s first constitution turns 200 hundred today
Today marks the bicentenary of the enacting of Spain’s first, and the world’s third fourth, modern constitution, known as la Pepa because it was passed...
Code of good practices for banks in Spain to stem home repossessions
Last Friday (09/03), the Spanish government announced a code of good practices for the banking sector to stem the tide of home repossessions (which...
Juries in Spain and the President of Valencia’s new suits
Trial by jury In the common law world, trial by jury is closely associated with the notion of receiving a fair trial. Despite its...
Postscript to my post on the Spanish media’s support of Contador
At the end of a discussion on Spain’s reaction to the Nadal skit on French TV on the radio programme La Ventana (La Cadena...
Contador: guilty until proven innocent for the CAS but always innocent in the Spanish media
I can understand why cycling fans, especially Spanish cycling fans, defend the innocence of cyclist Alberto Contador, who was yesterday banned for two years...
Spain’s housing repossession nightmare and dación en pago — Part 2
(…continued from Spain’s housing repossession nightmare and dación en pago — Part 1.) Landmark case In November 2010, a judge in Navarre found “that...
Spain’s home repossession nightmare and dación en pago — Part 1
The financial crisis—the one that seemed like old news a long time ago but is still here, at least in Spain, has triggered a...
Hardline election promises and translating “delito” and “falta”
This week, Duran i Lleida, CiU’s candidate for the Spanish general election to be held this month, announced that one of his party’s election...
LegalSpainTerm is born!
I have just published the rationale behind LegalSpainTerm, which is basically just a collection of descriptions and definitions of Spanish legal terms with possible...
One express reform to the constitution to go please
The Spanish Parliament recently voted to reform the constitution to impose a deficit cap on public budgets and so adopt the “golden rule” that...
