19 Mar 2009 4:03 PM:
Many years ago the Sur in English reported a most interesting case involving a Spanish lawyer. A Brit was buying a property here and he asked his English solicitor for help. Quite rightly the English solicitor said it was outside his field but he would help as best he could. The solicitor did what was and probably still is the normal practice of getting from the seller's lawyer an undertaking from that lawyer to clear any financial charges against the property that might be revealed after completion and not yet registered. This was duly done.
You know what's coming. Yes, three months later a jumbo monetary charge appeared against the property. The buyer consulted his UK solicitor who wrote to the Spanish lawyer asking him to honour his undertaking. Tough life, innit, said the Spanish lawyer, so the solicitor complained to the Malaga Colegio of Abogados.
You guessed it. Tough life, innit, they said.
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How to give your Spanish Lawyer a kick up the @
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