24 Jul 2020 5:55 PM:

Dear Maria,

We would just like to thank you and your colleagues for all your hard work and doggidly pursuing our claim.

We are very happy with the explanations from your UK colleague Keith who is invaluable with the language barrier.

You provide an excellent service, being helpful throughout the procedure, which has involved our attendance at two Spanish Court cases.

We would not hesitate to highly recommend your law firm.  

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20 Mar 2018 10:52 AM:

Many messages have included this phrase which has become a stumbling block for obtaining the interest from the time of the deposits.

 "there has still not been a formal declaration of doctrine by theSupreme Court"  

Excuse my ignorance of Spanish Law but how do we get the ball rolling for the S.C. to make a decision ? 

Can anyone explain how, in practice, this problem can be resolved ?

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23 Jan 2018 4:05 PM:

Hi Ads,

Thank you for your prompt reply and I will be making enquiries with my lawyer, once I have some feed back I will be in touch......... cheers 

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23 Jan 2018 10:26 AM:

Hi Ads,  Happy New Year, I can only apologise for my late response, but I have been tied up with the holidays and a dose of flu.

I can't explain why our lawyers did not go down the "Bar Association" route, however they did eventually obtain the necessary Bank Deposits details by making enquiries with the Aifos Judicial Administrators in 2014. They established that our complex was covered by three separate Banks for a total of 8 million euros, however over the years some Banks had amalgamated and some had ceased to exist. 

We ended up taking the main Guarantor Bank to court in 2017, however since the Bank only receieved approx. 80% of our deposits, the Judge ignored the fact that the Bank was  a Guarantor and responsible for ALL the deposits,  he decided that they should only pay us what they had received.   

Since we did not win 100% we were not awarded any costs and the Bank is now appealing so our lawyer requested the 80% sum of money to be paid to us whilst we await the outcome of the appeal, that was nearly a year ago and the Bank has failed to pay any money into the Court. 

 

 

This message was last edited by belucky358 on 23/01/2018.

This message was last edited by belucky358 on 23/01/2018.
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24 Dec 2017 3:48 PM:

Hi Ads, 

We did not provide any proof.... in 2004 our original Spanish Lawyer (supplied by our UK Travel Agent)  was sent all the deposits, and he would pay them into Aifos accounts, at unknown banks, however we found that he turned out to be worse than useless, he was uncontactable by phone, and never answered our emails, he even incorporated in our Spanish Contract that we would only receive a Bank Guarantee once the "licence of work was obtained" therefore since this was never granted and our block of apartments were never built, we were never given a Bank Guarantee.

In 2008 we engaged another Spanish Lawyer firm who took Aifos to Court in 2009 and won, the details of our paid deposits  were never in question as Aifos pleaded guilty and agreed to return all of our deposits.( therefore acknowledging that they had received them ) Shortly after this Aifos went into liquidation and we were accepted on the Creditos List.

In 2013 we changed to our current Spanish Lawyers and our original conveyancing lawyer failed to acknowlege all the emails that were sent to him asking for our deposits banking details, therefore it was not until 2014 that our current lawyers were able ascertain the necessary bank information and in 2017 arranged our latest Court case. 

Yes it probably is advisable to gain this level of proof but how do you "demand this evidence from the conveyancing law firm" when he totally ignores all your requests ?

 

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