The Magistrate’s court (Juzgado de Instrucción) no 1 of Benidorm in the criminal pre-trial proceedings no 4391/22014 has dismissed the criminal actions for misappropriation, fraud and insolvency offence, which for three years have been in process against two of our customers, of German and Austrian nationality, of this criminal specialist law firm of Carlos Baño León in Alicante. The proceedings…
There are several actions that the Spanish legal system attributes to the buyer of a dwelling due to construction defects after the purchase of the property. Certainly, the system of liability for defects or flaws in the building is complex. There are damages for defective works that can only find an answer in articles 1484 and in following articles of…
Nowadays and more frequently today we find that some operators of the real estate area, who call themselves real estate agents, lack basic legal technical preparation and professionalism. This is what you pay when an activity doesn’t belong to an association and therefore isn’t controlled, with the exception of the real estate agents’ activity. There are real estate agents whose…
Carlos Baño León’s criminal lawyers are legally assisting an Irish girl who was object of a sexual assault a year ago in Benidorm. Our criminal lawyers had appeared and are present in the criminal proceedings and have requested the examination of forensic evidence for the confirmation of the rape. The practice of this report has been positive and supposes a…
What effect does a state of insolvency of a real estate developer have on the property purchase and sale contracts signed prior to its declaration of insolvency? Buyers of properties may be affected at any given time by the insolvency situation that the real estate developer may experience, and it will be necessary to follow its process and see whether…
The actions that Carlos Baño Leon’s criminal lawyers of Alicante have carried out in the Criminal Court no 1 of Lleida and in Criminal pre-trial proceedings no 1708/2015-M have resulted in an important English company, client of this Alicante law firm, having obtained in its favour a high civil liability compensation, paid by the accused to avoid a conviction in…
One of the biggest concerns a buyer of a new home may have is the risk that damage may appear on it after a while and not having the security of protection when the people who intervened in the construction may have disappeared. Precisely as a result of the doctrine of the Supreme Court and of the legislator’s protection to…
The Provincial Court No. 9 of Alicante based in Elche has passed a judgment in favour of real estate lawyers Carlos Baño León in their claim filed, where several clients of English nationality were defended in their purpose of claiming an administrator of an important valencian real estate agency base in Orihuela and with many residential areas built in Torrevieja,…
The legal claim by homebuyers for the return of advanced payments has been a limitation in cases of claims made by buyers of tourist apartments. It has been considered that the buyer of a tourist apartment was a speculator or investor rather than a buyer of a dwelling for residential use; hence he was not considered a consumer and therefore…
The Law attributes to the Public Administration the necessary legal instruments to act in the event of an urban infraction so that, apart from sanctioning for this aforesaid illegal act, it restores the current urban situation before the urban infraction takes place. Three are the cases of urban infractions. a) and b) Works built without obtaining or applying for the…
