{"id":23739,"date":"2024-12-16T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:23:51","slug":"reform-of-civil-procedure-law-faster-simpler-and-more-accessible-summary-proceedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/reform-of-civil-procedure-law-faster-simpler-and-more-accessible-summary-proceedings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform of Civil Procedure Law: Faster, simpler, and more accessible summary proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Royal Decree-Law 6\/2023<\/strong>, approved on December 19, <strong>introduces urgent measures to implement the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan<\/strong>. This reform, which took effect on March 20, brings significant updates to the summary proceedings under Spain\u2019s Civil Procedure Law (LEC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the five key changes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. Higher monetary limit: \u20ac15,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Claims for amounts up to \u20ac15,000<\/strong> can now follow the simplified summary process, up from the previous limit of \u20ac6,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II. More case types now qualify for summary proceedings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reform adds three new categories, bringing the total to 16:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual claims regarding general contract terms (as opposed to collective claims, which follow standard proceedings).<\/li>\n<li>Claims by homeowners\u2019 associations under the Horizontal Property Law (Law 49\/1960), if they only involve monetary disputes of any amount.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cases involving the division of common property<\/strong>, which previously required ordinary proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>III. Extended deadlines for filing expert reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expert reports announced in the initial pleadings can now be submitted within 30 days, rather than the previous 5-day deadline before the hearing. Courts may grant extensions in exceptional cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV. No more bond requirements for certain claims<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defendants are no longer required to post a bond when challenging property-related claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0V. <\/strong><strong>Flexibility in presenting evidence after the hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If evidence cannot be presented at the hearing, it can now be admitted afterward as part of final proceedings, avoiding unnecessary delays.<\/p>\n<p>These legislative updates reflect the interpretation of <strong>addwill<\/strong>\u2019s procedural law team. Contact us for advice on the measures discussed or any issues concerning civil litigation in Spanish law.<\/p>\n<p>We are here to provide further information and advice. <em>Click here<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/contact-us\/\"><em>contact us<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Royal Decree-Law 6\/2023, approved on December 19, introduces urgent measures to implement the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. This reform, which took  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procesal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23741,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions\/23741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}