COURT CASE VICTORY

To everyone who may be in doubt about whether to continue with legal action against developers and banks.

We have just won our 2 cases in the Spanish courts against the developers. This has taken 2 years

to get to this point, but now it is well worth it. I have to pass on my sincere thanks to Maria del Castro

and all her team at CostaLuz Lawyers. We will be going out to Spain very soon to celebrate.

 Well done Abbeydale, 

That is great news, nice to know there is some justice.  Enjoy your celebration!!!!!!

Well done Maria and Team.

Patricia

Excellent news Abbeydale and well done to María and the Costa Luz team.

Enjoy the celebrations!

Kind regards

Keith

 Thanks Abbeydale!

Kindest,

Maria

Abbeydale, have you received recompense from your win?

Congratulations by the way!

Great news that you won your case,

we won ours back in January 2011 but the developer has appealed after us agreeing to an offer!!!

Still no money in the bank,

Hope your cash is in the bank now or soon...x

cheers

Yeah, let us all know when the cheque clears. Good luck.

Great news ! It is always good to hear that justice has been done.

Hi Abbeydale, congratulations on your win and to Maria and her team.  I hope all goes well and your money is soon in your bank account.  However, we thought we were celebrating our win when our court case was won, deposit, interest, legal fees, but the builder refused to pay, so our solicitor went back to court to seize their bank accounts, won again, but this time bank refused to pay as they said they had first claim to identified account.  I sincerely hope this doesn't happen to you, I really do, I would hate to see anyone else suffer the roller coast ride we have had, you win .... you don't win ... you win ...... you don't win, the bank, developer and builder have won.

Good Luck, shout it out when you do and give us all some scrap of hope that one day we will see our monies returned.

Sorry to put a dampener on this news but this is all too common a problem following successful first instance rulings.

There appears to be a major problem of systemic failure to enforce judgements within the Spanish Justice System, thereby denying recompense. It is an absolute disgrace that there are no timescale constraints in place to ensure that judgements are enforced in a timely manner in Spain. At present it appears that delays can be indefinite delays.

I would now request that all those awaiting resolution to appeals following successful first instance rulings ask their lawyers

·        how many of their clients have actually received monies back as per their successful judgements?,

·        how many of their clients are awaiting resolution to appeals, and if possible, identify how long they been waiting since their first instance judgement, and to please report back?.

Also report back if their legal professionals refuse to provide these statistics.

If anyone has received their monies back could they also please identify this. We need to ensure greater transparency from the Spanish legal professionals so as to identify the magnitude of this problem.

Maria would you be willing to identify your own statistics please?

I will start the ball rolling, we have been waiting since April 2008 and still have no resolution to the developer's appeal.

Please can everyone concerned document their details on Ruth and Keith's petition if they haven't done so already, specifying how long they have been waiting since their successful first instance ruling.

Thank you.

Ruth’s petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-the-spanish-property-roadshow-open-letter-to-davi.html

Keith’s petition:

http://www.bankguaranteesinspain.com/

Hi Ads

No I don't think we should put a dampener on this case, that wasn't my intention.  I simply wanted to say that it is very frustrating and upsetting when you think you have the money and suddenly your hopes are dashed. It feels even worse than waiting for the judgment especially when you are waiting to see the money in your account and then you are told the developer and banks won't release it.  I know those of us including yourself who are victims of the justice system have logged this in various petitions and on various threads so I don't really want to put a negative dead end to this one.

But to Abbeydale - please just don't celebrate until you see the money in your bank and good luck hoping that this will happen soon.

Good luck to Abbeydale, I sincerely hope that the monies are returned without too much delay, but without a system in place to ensure that, you are correct to forewarn them, and in the meantime we all have to work hard to ensure that we remove the lottery element from the equation.

Please keep us all posted.