18 Jan 2011 12:23 PM:

Hi all,

I have been in contact with a Spanish lawyer in the UK who tells me he has had dealings with CLS and they are basicly debt collectors, the prices he has quoted me for fighting Polaris and (a just walking away and loosing my deposit were £1500 and b) fighting for a return of deposit £2500 plus 10% of any recovered funds.

Does anyone know if this is a reasonable charge or not.

I have also been told by other people that any court decision against me in Spain would need to be enforced by a UK county court charging order against my UK house or assets but they doubt a UK judge would grant this in light of the less than ethical way Polaris has behaved and the fact that they already have both my deposit and the Spanish apartment. Also been told that due to the literaly hundreds of property actions lodged with Spanish courts every week! they are in a mess with a two year backlog does anyone have experience of this?

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16 Jan 2011 10:23 AM:

Hi, I have also recieved a second letter from CLS stating the same as yours that they will be taking me to court to sue for the entire amout of the original purchase price plus damages, it seems pretty outrageous considering it took them 5 years to complete my place by which time it was not worth half the contract price.  I have spoken to various legal people who have advised me to counter sue on the basis of late completion. If you ignore the letters the chances are that a Spanish Judge will rule you are in breach of contract and order you to pay, the question is what can CLS who are basicaly debt collectors do about it. Opinions vary on this but in order to recover such large amounts of money from individuals they would almost certainly have to go to court in this country and get a court order against you which given their poor reputation I would say most UK judges would be reluctant to enforce .

The best thing is to speak with a Spanish lawyer who is acredited in this country and perhaps start a counter suit.

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