Well, with some exceptions of specific and minority cases, it's not a good idea at all. This advice is heard on more than one occasion and almost always as a suggestion of foreign lawyers who do not have enough preparation to address the issue and its legal consequences in...
Well, it could be. Depending on the case. In the following, for example, the Spanish Supreme Court considers there is illegitimate intrusion into privacy in a case in which a lord installed surveillance cameras, unfit to record, and being oriented to the accesses and estate of the neighbouring claimant. These were mere...
No, you cannot. As a Juridical person (i.e. a Mercantile Company) your company does not have the profile of a consumer according to the law. Consumers or users according to the law are the natural persons who act with a purpose outside their business, commercial...
No, he is not. Video surveillance cameras in buildings owned by community of owners as long as these are aimed to record exclusively common areas and small outer strips that give access to these common areas need a formal agreement approved on a general...
Council of Ministers, on a proposal from the Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has today approved three draft legislations to adapt Spanish legislation with European legislation in order to be able to exchange information on criminal records and criminal judgments in the field of the...
The spokesman of the Spanish Government, Soraya Saez de Santamaría, reported at a press conference after the conclusion of the Council of Ministers last week that the proposed law is based on the principle of single license to allow economic operators to apply their law...
The New law came into force on October 31st, 2012. Payments over EUR 2,500 are not allowed in cash when either the payer or the receiver is an entrepreneur (cases of payment to bank entities are excluded). However, the limit shall be EUR 15,000 in cases...
The Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament has recently adopted the proposal for the regulation on legal issues in relation to Inheritance Law in the European area and creation of a European certificate of inheritance, whose purpose is to facilitate the process concerning...
Yes you can. According to recent succesive reforms in the Spanish Penal law a thief’s use of legitimate keys lost by the proprietor or obtained by means that constitute penal infraction as well as the use of false keys, constitutes an aggravated theft (robo) and...
Yes, you can, since the rule in Spain is that the law applicable is the one corresponding to your nationality at the time of the decease whatever the nature or location of the assets is. Furthermore, if the Will included terms and clauses in accordance...