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The new customer service law requires large companies and basic services to offer human service, identify each procedure and resolve within a maximum period. A firm will only be obliged if it meets those conditions. Even so, the legal profession should adopt similar standards on its own initiative.
On 6 October two royal decree-laws on housing were approved that amend the same law, even the same article, with different entry-into-force dates. One of them also reforms a long list of tax, procedural and financial rules. We argue that so sensitive a matter deserves a different legislative technique.
The summer's wildfires forced the suspension of procedural deadlines in several judicial districts. The suspension came through a royal decree-law that entered into force when the suspended period had already ended. We argue for a stable mechanism for these situations.
Anyone who cannot afford a lawyer has the right to free legal assistance, but the law measures that inability with a specific indicator: two, two and a half or three times the IPREM. We ask for public data to be used to assess whether those thresholds still fulfil their function.
The 2026 bar aptitude test was taken online with multiple-choice questions, and its mark is weighted with the master's. The format has obvious virtues. It also has a limit: it does not measure what a lawyer does on their first day at the firm.
The European pay transparency directive sets June 2027 for the first gap reports of large companies. The Spanish text is still a draft. Law firms have good reasons not to wait.
