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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:00 |
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 The temptation of collective suicide appears to be high in the imagination of the overworked judges and clerks of Málaga’s Mercantile Courts.
It seems that the high case load is causing Judges to openly speak of the breakdown in the Justice system.
“Absolutely paralyzed by the volume and overload of cases resulting from bankruptcy proceedings arising from the current economic climate” is how one Judge recently described the state of the courts.
Judges have recently urged parties in bankruptcy to reach agreements outside the judicial process to avoid unnecessary expense and delay.
And in a recent order signed by Mercantil Judge of Court nº 1 of Málaga, Antonio Fuentes Bujalance, in relation to the bankruptcy proceedings of Aifos Architecture and Real Estate SA, the magistrate expressly encourages buyers who have not started or completed their projects property not to go to court to settle their purchase contracts.
"They should go to court, but the volume of cases that could be generated by such proceedings, added to those already pending, can cause, or rather increase, the temptations of the collective suicide of the court staff who have to deal with the cases" wrote the Judge in his order dated February 11 and shown to the Málaga branch of national newspaper El Mundo.
The judge invited the parties involved to "devise imaginative solutions" to avoid the consequences of such a flood of claims in court, and suggested extrajudicial arbitration to solve most of the cases.
The liquidators of Aifos should resolve outstanding contracts via arbitration, "avoiding delays, expense and absurd delays“.
The Judge points out that if both parties accept the arbitration decision, then it need only be ratified by a Judge to become binding, and “would be a much faster solution to the problem”.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently criticised Spain for its "slow" justice system.
The case was presented by Martín Vicente Llavador, a Spanish citizen from Alicante, after his case was accepted in 1999 only to be thrown out four years later for insufficient evidence.
The ECHR found Spain to be in breech of article 6.1 of the European Agreement on Human Rights, which states that all EU citizens have the right to "speedy equitable and effective justice".
And court staff across Spain staged protests last year, demanding greater resources from the central government to deal with increased workload.
Judges have complained that the Justice system is being “starved of money” by the government, and say that in some regions resources allocated to courts should be doubled in order to help deal with the backlog of cases. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:23 |
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 A DRUNKEN HORSERIDER blocked traffic in Malaga city centre yesterday.
Forty-eight-year-old Spaniard, Enrique D.M., was spotted yesterday riding his horse along the Camino San Alberto street. Witnesses said he was weaving from side to side, blocking traffic in both lanes. Police were called to the scene and quickly realised the man posed a serious danger to both traffic and his horse.
But Enrique initially refused to dismount or to identify himself. He also refused to submit to a breathalyser test. He then became increasingly aggressive and rude, threatening the officers with violence and eventually pushing one of them.
After being arrested, Enrique told officers he planned to “take a hunting rifle” he had at home and kill both of them the next time he saw them on the street.
His drunken ride could end up costing him dearly. Besides being charged with threatening behaviour towards police officers, he is also being charged with riding a horse negligently and riding under the influence of alcohol. He is currently awaiting trial.
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 07:55 |
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 THREE LYNX in a conservation programme have died from chronic kidney disease (CKD), it was announced this week.
The last of the three, known as Cromo, died last week after forming part of the breeding programme in Doñana (Huelva) since May 2003. Veterinarians realised something was wrong when they noticed Cromo suffering “an advanced state of dehydration, weakness and generally poor physical condition” but it was too late to save the animal’s life as the CKD was already too serious.
Veterinaries are now working to discover why so many lynx in captivity suffer from this disease. At the moment, 25 of the 72 animals currently involved in the breeding programme suffer from CKD in various stages of development.
A study by the Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery at the University of Madrid said the Iberian lynx was the most endangered felid species in the world and now consisted of just two isolated populations of around 200 individuals in the southwest of Spain. The report said: “Little is known about the diseases that affect these animals in the wild or in captivity. The serum biochemistry and urinalyses revealed signs of mild chronic kidney disease in 16 of the 23 animals evaluated, a progressive disease of immune origin. We postulate a possible genetic predisposition towards the disease, enhanced by inbreeding and a possible connection to an immune-mediated systemic disease.”
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 07:26 |
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 TWO POLICE OFFICERS were attacked by a group of youths on Sunday night in the city of Granada.
Events began around four in the morning when the officers, one of whom is female, found the youths holding a botellón – a Spanish custom where youngsters buy bottles of spirits and then meet in large groups to consume them in the street from plastic cups – in the Calle Santa Barbara. The police officers were answering complaints registered by numerous residents in the street due to the noise the youths were making.
When police told the youths, some of whom were playing musical instruments in the street, to stop, they became aggressive, throwing bottles at the police officers and forcing them to retreat from the area. Both officers were punched during the disturbance and one was also bitten. The youths then fled the scene.
However, police have made one arrest in the case after finding one of the youths had dropped his wallet in the struggle containing documentation which allowed police to identify him.
Both police are currently on sick leave.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 09:55 |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 16:57 |
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 THE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, the Junta de Andalucía, is to give compensation to women who suffered ill-treatment at the hands of the Franco regime, it was announced today.
Any woman able to prove having suffered “ill-treatment, torture, derision or humiliation” at the hands of the regime will be able to claim a 1,800 euro compensation payment.
The announcement was made to coincide with International Women’s Day, held today. The Junta justified its decision to create a sex-specific compensation saying that of the 2,742 compensations paid out under the old system only 5% had been received by women.
The Junta has also said the decree pays homage to the women that defended the values of the Second Republic. Junta minister, Begoña Alvarez, said: “We wanted to do justice to women in Andalusia and to all those who suffered the horrors of war, that were imprisoned, were publicly humiliated, had their heads shaved or were forced to drink castor-oil.”
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 March 2010 17:02 |
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