While the government and its parliamentary partners hope that EH Bildu’s decision to remove seven people convicted of blood crimes from the municipal lists will undermine the strategy of the PP and Vox to make ETA the center of the campaign, this Wednesday’s control session in Congress shows that: For now, the right wing is […]
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The future of the great Internet Archive’s digital library is being tested by legal harassment from major publishers
The Internet Archive, a large free and non-commercial digital library, has been convicted in a US court of first instance after receiving a lawsuit from four major publishers for copyright infringement on 127 works uploaded to the platform during three months of 2020. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many cultural institutions were forced to close […]
Ferrovial now denies that the transfer to Holland is due to less legal stability in Spain
Ferrovial said its transfer to the Netherlands is not due to less legal stability in Spain, but to greater predictability in the United States, its main market. “The legal stability of Spain is equal to the best of all countries in the world and in Europe,” stressed Francisco Polo, outgoing director of communications of the […]
What will legal gender change and other key trans laws look like?
The trans law continues on its way to the Senate after receiving the support of a majority of congressional representatives this Thursday. The issue that generated the most vision and debate was the gender self-determination of trans people, that is, changing their legal gender without requirements, but this is a comprehensive law that has measures […]
Bishops condemn “discrimination” against students studying religion and demand “legal protection” for them.
“The risk of possible illegal discrimination against students who choose religion as a subject is still a reality in some cases.” Spanish Bishops through the Education Commission, evaluated the final regulation of the subject, After learning about the academic organization regulated by autonomous communities. An assessment in which they “must” offer “legal protection for the […]
Constitutional, Appropriation and the False Self-Employed: Six Years on from Legal Reform
In the past few hours, the parties in the coalition government and one of its preferred partners, the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, presented their proposals for reforming the crime of sedition, but also several changes to unlock the renewal of the Constitutional Court. To punish the illegal enrichment of politicians or to condemn businessmen who […]
The government is planning “surgical” legal reforms of the constitution and judiciary to end the PP blockade.
Official Spain is so polarized that even the anniversary of the Constitution is no excuse for rapprochement. With or without the party, the Congress of Deputies is a hotbed of discord, in which there is no room for agreement, and among some even greetings. Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijoo did not at this Tuesday’s […]
Treasury wins legal battle against El Rubio: He will pay 2013 benefits for personal income tax, not as a company.
In 2013, the young Ruben Doblas was already the king of YouTube in Spain. After a few years of his obscurity on social media with videos centered around the world of video games, Rubius He became the first Spanish YouTuber to reach one million subscribers on his channel, a throne he has held ever since […]
PSOE reminds Podemos that it has a “majority” and defends that the “legal security” of the trans law should be strengthened.
A new clash in the coalition for the trans law, which is one of the most heated positions between the PSOE and Unidas Podemos. The Socialist leadership maintains the changes it proposed to the norm promoted by the Ministry of Equality, reminding Podemos that “it has the majority in the chamber” to implement the norms. […]
The legal chaos behind the “only yes is yes” law remains in the hands of the Supreme Court and prosecutors.
The Supreme Court is set to issue its first ruling on the new “only yes is yes” law in the coming days. As elDiario.es has learned, this week the Criminal Court examined the case of a man sentenced to 12 years in prison for the rape of his underage niece in Mallorca, a case in […]
Justice accepts the validity of surrogacy contracts when they are limited to legal advice
Hiring a surrogate mother is not legal in Spain. That’s what the law has said for over 12 years, and the Supreme Court has said it repeatedly, forcefully. Anyone who wants to adopt a child through surrogacy must go to a country where it is legal and then return to Spain. Civil judges have also […]
The PSOE proposes that under the Trans Act minors between the ages of 14 and 16 must ask a judge for permission to change their legal gender.
that minors between the ages of 14 and 16 need court permission to change their legal gender on their DNI and that a judge is also required if they wish to restore their registration prior to the change. These are two changes the PSOE plans to introduce to the trans law, which have opened a […]
The Budget Council supports legal gender reassignment without court intervention under the 14-year-old Trans Act.
The Fiscal Council supports an age system for legal gender reassignment under the Trans Act, which limits judicial intervention to the cases of children under 14. This is reflected in the report on this rule, which was approved on September 14 by the main advisory body of the Attorney General. The document, which elDiario.es had […]
The state attorney accepts legal defeat and stops defending Montoro’s fines for overseas money
In recent years, national and international courts have struck down some of the most controversial measures introduced by Mariano Rajoy’s first executive with Cristóbal Montoro as finance minister. One was a tax amnesty, and the other was a system of sanctions and taxation for those who had money abroad for years without declaring it. This […]
Legal inconsistencies in prison sentences for those who pay for sex with trafficked victims
The draft comprehensive law against human trafficking is a comprehensive text that addresses the entire phenomenon of exploitation: prevention, social assistance to victims and repression of the crime. On this last point, as elDiario.es said, the punishment of prostitution clients who pay for sex with trafficked victims is new, but its use has led to […]
The conservative sector denies that it is “urgent” to renew the constitution, despite the fact that the legal deadline has not been met and is not proposing candidates.
The conservative majority of the current General Council of Justice (CGPJ) has not yet specified which candidate they should choose for the Constitutional Court. This is the main conclusion of the meeting held this Wednesday by the interlocutors of the conservative and progressive sectors, who must agree on which two magistrates will be appointed to […]
Charge for ice from bar, legal practice if notified, but minority: ‘I’ll hide my face in shame’
While inflation is widespread this year, some modesty is creeping into bars when it comes to charging customers for any establishment’s staple: ice cubes. The practice of filing them separately in the bill, which began this summer amid heatwaves and supply shortages — manufacturers didn’t store over the winter because of energy costs and now […]
Prosecutor’s office against the “boom” of prefabricated houses: defends that there is no legal vacuum and they need a license
Placing a prefabricated house on land without planning permission – whether it’s an orchard, a plot of land in a village or a mountain – can lead to prison terms. This is the statement that the prosecutor’s office gave both to the companies selling these houses and to those who want to buy them. The […]