English Lawyers in Spain, Can You Trust Them?

Certain English lawyers in Spain are not to be trusted.

It seems that they are willing to flout laws and bamboozle ex-patriots of whatever nationality with their superior knowledge of the law, language and common practices. 

This does not only apply to English lawyers in Spain of course but let us concern ourselves with them for the time being.

This blog has cited the case of Edward Kirwan who was to be railroaded from his home on the 21st January 2009 as the result of an illegal action brought by De Cotta Law on behalf of their client Valerie Celia Russell. 

International laws become something  of a joke when a judge sitting in Hastings in England can pronounce a judgement in a divorce case based on a Spanish property valuation. The valuation was proven false,  it was written in Spanish which is a language the judge could neither read, write nor speak. Yet  District Judge Pollard was able to do this… how amazing…

Ask District Judge Pollard next time you see him…señor, habla español?

However, based on his superior knowledge of the law, his professional position and the fact that he had had an apartment and stayed in the Marbella or Puerto Banus area on his holidays, gave him, it appears,  sufficient understanding of the Spanish law to make a court order. 

Sadly, the court order was “mis-translated” by an Official Translator, Barry True and was used against Edward Kirwan, initially by Jon Sutton of DeCotta Law, to prevent him from honouring the court order. Interestingly, the official translation was acted upon several days before Barry True stamped it.

Time passed and DeCotta Law, on behalf of their client Valerie Celia Russell, appealed the decision of the Torrox Court on a technicality. De Cotta McKenna y Santafé had the appeal denied on 12th March 2009. 

De Cotta McKenna y Santafé have appealed again, this time to the higher court in Madrid…do De Cotta McKenna y Santafé really want to continue this charade? Do they want to defend their illegal action? The mind really boggles…or is it just another day in Surreal Spain?

I hear you shout “FRAUD” and you are not wrong…watch this space…

Wake up! There are ordinary intelligent individuals living and working in all parts of Spain and other countries in Europe, who are being exploited by  ”the system”. Why?

There are all manner of reasons but perhaps because they do not speak the language,  perhaps they do not understand the proceedures, perhaps they cannot afford to pay the fees of English lawyers in Spain but certainly they do not want to be exploited further.

Meanwhile, English Lawyer, Paula Basham and owner of Axar Property continues with business as usual with seemingly scant regard for the plight of her former employee (or as we are now noitfied employees).

Paula Basham is totally refusing to acknowledge or respect the heavy fines imposed on her by the Court in Malaga for her illegal actions.

Although the “office staff” at Axar Property have their lips tightly sealed, possibly through fear,  it appears nothing much has changed there in regard to employee’s rights and employer obligations. 

The misery and suffering these English lawyers in Spain have caused in the instances cited  above is quite beyond measure.

Anyone might forgive drunken louts behaving in this fashion but the action of these educated and presumably cold sober professionals brings disgrace to the English people and makes it  a shame to be known as English.

 

Axar Properties…Pays Decent Wages…

 “Axar Properties of Torrox Costa in Andalucia, Spain will pay their staff a decent wage and give them a proper contract of employment  in future…”

Vanessa Kjaerulff Jensen working at Axar Properties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That would be a great headline and music to the ears of many people generally in employment in Andalucia, including Vanessa Kjaerulff Jensen.

If Vanessa had been given the correct contract of employment and had not been unlawfully dismissed during her pregnancy  she would not be in the position she is in now.

Her financial position is desperate. It is desperate because Paula Basham of Axar Properties did not honour her word when she employed this tri-lingual young lady as a “trainee secretarty” (for want of a better expression) who turned out to be not only a useful secretary, she filed, she updated the website, she took in cash rental payments, she “meeted and greeted”  clients, she even went out on site visits with these clients as a Danish/English translator. Vanessa made sales for Axar Properties!

Did I mention …Vanessa Kjaerulff Jensen was not a cleaner…and anyway, there are plenty of fine cleaning companies Axar Properties could employ and who would be happy to give a proper tax receipt.

Vanessa has won TWO court cases in Malaga Court against Axar Properties and has NOT received one centimo from her employer, Paula Basham.

Vanessa has been to every official office, week after week with her young baby in arms to fill out form after form only to be told that her claim cannot be processed because she did not have a proper work contract. Even with the court papers in hand and assistance from her lawyer she cannot get the finacial help she is entitled to and  is desperatrely in need of because Axar Properties , apparently, has no money in its accounts.

As it is, Axar Properties continues to do business under the ownership of English Lawyer, Paula Basham.

Does she have any staff under contract now, we wonder.

If you would really like to do business with Paula Basham and Axar Properties you can contact them here:

SALES/RENTALS Spain
+34 952534954 (land line)
+34 691120935 (mobile)
info@axarproperties.com
SALES/RENTALS UK
Tel: +44 (0)1279 832125
(land line)
UK Postal Enquiries and Telephone Contact:
12 Brook End Sawbridgeworth Herts
Tel: +44 (0)1279 832125 (land line)

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