{"id":1033,"date":"2013-02-11T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-05-05T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T18:06:02","slug":"don-juan-ii-developer-and-caixa-galicia-forced-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/don-juan-ii-developer-and-caixa-galicia-forced-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Juan II developer and Caixa Galicia forced to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Arrohabitatge<\/em> and<em> Caixa Galicia<\/em>, the saving&#8217;s bank in charge of providing the bank guarantees, <strong>have been jointly and severally found guilty of contractual default<\/strong> and forced to return the deposit of a British claimant.<\/p>\n<p>The developer, in a brazen display of arrogance, <strong>rescinded its agreement with the investor due to his unwillingness to close the transaction<\/strong>, on grounds that no license of occupancy had been granted on the development. When sued, the developer&#8217;s defense was based around the fact that the works had been halted by the Town Hall due to a dispute with owners of a neighbouring plot, the Spanish Railway Company (RENFE), a dispute totally beyond the control of the developer.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Leiro, for the claimants, successfully argued that<strong><em> force majeure<\/em>, or superior force, could not be invoked<\/strong> because the Spanish Supreme Court has established that this ground to oppose fullfilment must be of a <strong>decisive, unforeseeable, insuperable and inevitable nature<\/strong>, due to its alienness, characteristics not appertaining to the delay suffered. And it was not because Arrohabitatge \u00a0S.L. is a construction company<strong> that could have not been unaware<\/strong> of this matter since, within the scope of their activity, <strong>a neighbouring dispute is a vicissitude that can be expected to happen and prevented where possible<\/strong>, or at the very least warned of its likely happening, and never transfer the consequences of it to the consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrohabitatge and Caixa Galicia, the saving&#8217;s bank in charge of providing the bank guarantees, have been jointly and severally found guilty of contractual default and forced to return the deposit of a British claimant. The developer, in a brazen display of arrogance, rescinded its agreement with the investor due to his unwillingness to close the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,136,134,132,135],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litigation","tag-arrohabitatge","tag-benalmadena-property","tag-caixa-galicia","tag-don-juan-ii","tag-don-juan-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}