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Supreme Court Case Law on Unfair Contract Terms 2025: Key Rulings
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Supreme Court Case Law on Unfair Contract Terms 2025: Key Rulings

Summary of the most relevant Supreme Court and CJEU rulings on unfair contract terms in 2025. IRPH, early termination, default interest, and floor clauses.

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Supreme Court Labor Law Case Law 2025: Dismissal, Furloughs, and Remote Work
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Supreme Court Labor Law Case Law 2025: Dismissal, Furloughs, and Remote Work

The most important Social Chamber rulings in 2025: void and unfair dismissal, post-covid furloughs, remote work, minimum wage, and pay discrimination.

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Supreme Court 2025: Unfair Clauses in Credit Cards and Loans
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Supreme Court 2025: Unfair Clauses in Credit Cards and Loans

Analysis of the main 2025 Supreme Court rulings on unfair clauses in banking contracts: hidden APR, disproportionate default interest, revolving credit cards and mortgage costs.

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Supreme Court 2025: Null Dismissal for Anti-Union Retaliation and Discrimination
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Supreme Court 2025: Null Dismissal for Anti-Union Retaliation and Discrimination

Analysis of 2025 Supreme Court and Constitutional Court rulings on null dismissal: anti-union retaliation, pregnancy discrimination, long-term illness and exercise of fundamental rights.

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STC 182/2021: Constitutional Court Strikes Down IIVTNU and Legislature Responds with RDL 26/2021
Case Law8 min

STC 182/2021: Constitutional Court Strikes Down IIVTNU and Legislature Responds with RDL 26/2021

Analysis of STC 182/2021 striking down the objective IIVTNU calculation method and RDL 26/2021 introducing the alternative real gain method. Implications for pending appeals.

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Spain Labour Reform 2021 and Permanent Discontinuous Contracts: Supreme Court Case Law Two Years On
Case Law9 min

Spain Labour Reform 2021 and Permanent Discontinuous Contracts: Supreme Court Case Law Two Years On

Analysis of key Supreme Court rulings on Spain’s 2021 labour reform (RDL 32/2021): permanent discontinuous contracts, termination of temporary contracts and new contractual arrangements.

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Floor Clauses (Cláusulas Suelo): Invalidity and Claim Procedure Spain 2026
Case Law9 min

Floor Clauses (Cláusulas Suelo): Invalidity and Claim Procedure Spain 2026

Current state of floor clause claims in Spain 2026: CJEU doctrine, 2015 Spanish Supreme Court plenary judgment, full retroactivity, statute of limitations and how to start a claim.

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Divorce Compensatory Pensión: Supreme Court Case Law 2024-2025
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Divorce Compensatory Pensión: Supreme Court Case Law 2024-2025

Analysis of the most relevant Supreme Court (Civil Chamber) rulings in 2024 and 2025 on the compensatory pensión after divorce: setting criteria, duration, extinction and modification.

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Workers' Digital Rights: Constitutional Court and Supreme Court Case Law 2024-2025
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Workers' Digital Rights: Constitutional Court and Supreme Court Case Law 2024-2025

Analysis of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court rulings on employer digital monitoring: corporate email access, GPS tracking, CCTV cameras and social media.

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CJEU and Personal Data in Generative AI: Case Law and European DPA Guidelines 2024-2025
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CJEU and Personal Data in Generative AI: Case Law and European DPA Guidelines 2024-2025

Analysis of CJEU case law and European Data Protection Authority resolutions on personal data processing by generative AI models: training, inference and right to erasure.

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Medical liability in Spain's Supreme Court: consolidated doctrine and 2024-2025 rulings
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Medical liability in Spain's Supreme Court: consolidated doctrine and 2024-2025 rulings

Analysis of Supreme Court case law on medical liability: informed consent, loss of chance, burden of proof and key 2024-2025 rulings.

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Preventive detention in Spain's Constitutional Court: guarantees and recent case law
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Preventive detention in Spain's Constitutional Court: guarantees and recent case law

Constitutional Court case law on preventive detention: proportionality principle, legitimate purposes, enhanced reasoning requirement and máximum duration doctrine.

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Cookies and GDPR: CJEU case law and application in Spain
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Cookies and GDPR: CJEU case law and application in Spain

Analysis of CJEU case law on cookies and consent: Planet49, Orange Romania, IAB TCF rulings and their application by Spain's AEPD.

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Rebus sic stantibus in Spain's Supreme Court: post-COVID application and current criteria
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Rebus sic stantibus in Spain's Supreme Court: post-COVID application and current criteria

Supreme Court case law on rebus sic stantibus: requirements, effects, application to leases and long-term contracts after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cybercrime at Spain's National Court: landmark cases and current criminal framework
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Cybercrime at Spain's National Court: landmark cases and current criminal framework

Analysis of Spain's cybercrime criminal framework (Arts. 197-200, 264, 270 CP) and key National Court cases: hacking, ransomware, identity theft and grooming.

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STS Social Chamber, Disciplinary dismissal: proportionality and sanction grading doctrine 2024
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STS Social Chamber, Disciplinary dismissal: proportionality and sanction grading doctrine 2024

The Spanish Supreme Court Social Chamber consolidated in 2023-2024 demanding doctrine on proportionality of disciplinary dismissal. We analyse sanction grading criteria, null dismissal for violation of fundamental rights and the "disciplinary record" doctrine.

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Spanish Constitutional Court, Art. 24 CE: right to effective judicial protection 2024
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Spanish Constitutional Court, Art. 24 CE: right to effective judicial protection 2024

Art. 24 of the Spanish Constitution guarantees the right to effective judicial protection. We analyse recent Constitutional Court doctrine on defencelessness, access to appeal, reasoning of decisions and the right to evidence.

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Spanish Supreme Court Civil Chamber, Non-contractual liability: vicarious liability, solidarity and limits 2024
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Spanish Supreme Court Civil Chamber, Non-contractual liability: vicarious liability, solidarity and limits 2024

The Supreme Court Civil Chamber clarified in 2024 the limits of vicarious liability (Arts. 1902-1903 CC) of companies and principals for harm caused by their dependants. We analyse doctrine on joint liability, the required diligence standard and adequate causation.

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TS Administrative Chamber, Negative administrative silence: new criteria for appeal 2024
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TS Administrative Chamber, Negative administrative silence: new criteria for appeal 2024

The Spanish Supreme Court Administrative Chamber clarified in 2024 the requirements for challenging negative administrative silence: deadlines for judicial review, effects of late notification of express decisions and tacit presumed acts vs. express acts.

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Floor clause and IRPH in Spain: Supreme Court and CJEU case law evolution 2015-2025
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Floor clause and IRPH in Spain: Supreme Court and CJEU case law evolution 2015-2025

The floor clause (voidness for lack of transparency) and IRPH (mortgage reference rate) are the two major chapters of banking mortgage litigation in Spain. We analyse CJEU and TS case law evolution from the Aziz ruling (2013) to the latest decisions in 2024-2025.

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Spanish Supreme Court Criminal Chamber, Damage repair mitigating factor (Art. 21.5 CP): requirements and scope 2024
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Spanish Supreme Court Criminal Chamber, Damage repair mitigating factor (Art. 21.5 CP): requirements and scope 2024

The damage repair mitigating factor under Art. 21.5 CP allows sentence reduction when the accused repairs harm before trial. We analyse TS requirements: voluntariness, sufficiency of repair, procedural timing and application as a highly qualified mitigating factor.

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TS Civil Chamber, Limitation periods: computation, interruption and starting date for contractual liability claims 2024
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TS Civil Chamber, Limitation periods: computation, interruption and starting date for contractual liability claims 2024

The limitation of contractual liability claims (Arts. 1101-1104 CC, general 5-year period after the 2015 reform) remains a permanent source of litigation. We analyse TS doctrine on the starting date for continuing damage, extrajudicial interruption and the effect of prior negotiations.

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Economic dismissal: 2024 Supreme Court doctrine on Art. 52.c ET and ERTEs
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Economic dismissal: 2024 Supreme Court doctrine on Art. 52.c ET and ERTEs

2024 Supreme Court (Social Chamber) doctrine on economic dismissal under Art. 52.c ET: negative economic situation, three consecutive quarters (STS 567/2024), ERTE interaction and employment commitment (STS 789/2024).

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Constitutional Court and fundamental rights in criminal proceedings 2024: privacy, home and fair trial
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Constitutional Court and fundamental rights in criminal proceedings 2024: privacy, home and fair trial

2024 Constitutional Court rulings on the tension between criminal investigation and fundamental rights: Art. 18 CE (privacy, home, communications secrecy) and Art. 24 CE (effective judicial protection). STC 14/2024, STC 89/2024 and STC 201/2023.

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Urban leasing LAU: 2024 Supreme Court rulings on extensions, rent and eviction
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Urban leasing LAU: 2024 Supreme Court rulings on extensions, rent and eviction

2024 Supreme Court (Civil Chamber) key LAU rulings: non-retroactivity of the Housing Act for pre-2023 contracts (STS 234/2024), 3% rent cap (STS 456/2024), eviction enervation (STS 567/2024) and own-use recovery (STS 678/2024).

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Online Fraud Spain 2026: How to Report and Recover Money (Art. 248 CP)
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Online Fraud Spain 2026: How to Report and Recover Money (Art. 248 CP)

Guide to cybercrime fraud (Art. 248.2 CP): key elements, how to file a police report, bank liability for phishing, claim before Banco de España, timelines. Updated with 2024-2025 case law.

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Civil liability of sports clubs: player and spectator injuries in Spain
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Civil liability of sports clubs: player and spectator injuries in Spain

When a player is injured or a spectator is hurt at a sports event, who is liable? We analyse the organising club's liability, mandatory federation insurance (Law 39/2022) and contributory negligence.

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Abusive Bank Clauses in Spain: Floor Clauses, Mortgage Costs and IRPH, Step-by-Step Claim
Case Law11 min

Abusive Bank Clauses in Spain: Floor Clauses, Mortgage Costs and IRPH, Step-by-Step Claim

Updated guide on claiming abusive mortgage clauses: floor clauses, setup costs, IRPH and early termination after CJEU case law.

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