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Spain: The new legal landscape of alternative dispute resolution in Spain
Abstract:Organic Law 1/2025 introduces a mandatory pre-litigation Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) phase in most civil and commercial disputes in Spain, reshaping procedural timelines and legal strategy. This article explores how a certified letter with proof of content, known as a “burofax”, is widely accepted by courts and considered legally reliable because it serves as a […]
Spain: Recent Developments in Spanish Procedural Law
The Official State Gazette of January 3 published Organic Law 1/2025, of January 2, on measures regarding the efficiency of the Public Justice Service. It is an ambitious law that seeks to respond to the collapsed courts and, above all, to modernize a 19th century organizational model that has become obsolete. The law is ambitious, […]
Spain: The Head of the Internal Information System under Spain’s Whistleblowing Act and Compliance
The Head of the Internal Information System (hereinafter, ‘HIIS’) plays a crucial role in the context of compliance and the implementation of whistleblowing channels to comply with the Whistleblowing Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1937), transposed in Spain through the Spanish Whistleblowing Act (Law 2/2023, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory infringements and the fight […]