Legal tip 692. Both useless and unfair
Monday, January 30, 2012 @ 3:25 PM
An answers in a question today in the forum:
Dear Mega:
Enforcing these Court decissions against the developer is, in our opinion both useless and unfair:
Useless: Becuase many developers and bankrupted or with bery low solvency rates. Their developed properties all have a preexisting mortgage in favour of a Bank ( which was funding the development) and if entered into Creditor´s meeting your rights are very poorly recognised by the Bankruptcy Act.
Unfair: law 57/68 stablished liabilities for both the developer and ( I would say MAINLY) for the bank which received people´s deposits.
It is a joy that this Law which keeps a pro-consumer, pro-person approach of bank´s rols is active and enforceable in Spain. It gives to us a right and balanced picture ( even much breached) of these businesses where Banks had much to gain and little to risk. They were constituted as guardians of deposits in 1968
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