17 Oct 2014 8:23 AM:

Thanks Kieth for sharing the detail of your lawsuit.

I acknowledge the time and effort you must have put in in trying to understand the Spanish legal system, so it does worry me when you say that a very important element of any group lawsuit, is that all claimants have identical cases -the only identical element with our group lawsuit is the name of the development!

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15 Oct 2014 9:52 AM:

I am in the same boat as you pff001.

As I am sure you are aware, our class action against the banks contain some 30 plus individual cases, but all slightly different from the next! I could be wrong, but I think this may be causing the problem - it certainly did first time in front of the magistrate [as he stated it] hence why he decided in favour of the banks.

You shouldn't compare cases, for may reasons such as what is fact, fiction or hearsay, but I will anyway. Finca Parks, I believe, all had identical cases so it was relatively straightforward for the magistrate to pass sentence. The interesting bit is that the appeal took just over 8 months to be heard followed then by a further month for that then to be thrown out - circa 9 months in total.

I share your frustration, like I am sure many others do in our class action, but as it has gone on for so long, do you pull out and 'go it alone' or just carry on waiting in the hope that it will be any time now.

My only concern is that the first magistrate decided in favour of the banks, so what's different in the next one doing the same!!!

I do believe the lawyers are fighting our corner though.

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