A ruling by the Supreme Court in Spain says Spanish banks that held deposits for property that was never built are to be held to account. Around 100,000 people in the UK are thought to have paid big sums towards such properties in Spain but these were lost when several developers went bust in the wake of 2008’s financial crisis. Estimates for how much British buyers could claim are around £4bn.
La sentencia del Tribunal Supremo de 8 abril 2016 realiza unas interesantes consideraciones sobre la compensación en el concurso.
The Law 9/2015 includes the following novelties:
1. In Regard to the Insolvency Agreement
Law 9/2015 presents a series of novelties regarding the insolvency agreement, such as:
The Supreme Court repeated its criterion on classifying as insolvency claims any leasing installments arising after the declaration of insolvency, and interpreted the amendment introduced into article 61.2 of the Insolvency Act (“IA”) by the 2011 reform.
El art. 172 LC determina los pronunciamientos que ha de contener la sentencia de calificación culpable, pronunciamientos judiciales que constituyen verdaderas sanciones civiles.1 Así, calificado culpable el concurso, deben determinarse a continuación las personas afectadas por la calificación y los cómplices, que son las que van a soportar los pronunciamientos de condena. Luego, el art.
The current economic recession has been particularly acute in one of the pillars of the national economy, the construction and real-estate sector. This sector, which had already been undergoing a slowdown in recent years following the so-called “real-estate boom”, now stands in a profound and particular crisis with sales coming to a standstill, caused not only by the overall market situation, but mainly due to the restrictions placed by banks on loans, which are putting an economic brake on entrepreneurs.
48 IFLR/May 2015 www.iflr.com The collapse in 2001 of Switzerland’s national airline Swissair, until then regarded as a symbol of the country’s reliability and efficiency, sparked a debate over the need to amend Swiss insolvency laws. Criticism was raised that the Swiss Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Law (DEBL) had proven ineffective in facilitating the restructuring of companies in distress and was not adequate to deal with the insolvencies of large groups of companies.
Following changes to legislation last year, Valentyn Gvozdiy makes recommendations to creditors
Прийняття Кодексу України з процедур банкрутства привернуло увагу юридичної спільноти до проблем, пов’язаних із цією сферою юридичної практики. Як не дивно, найбільш обговорюване питання – це процедура банкрутства фізичної особи (та фізичної особи-підприємця) за новим Кодексом, яка є найпомітнішою новелою цього документа.
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