We are pleased to inform you of last weeks Spanish court victories. Our legal team secured 8 results, total awarded £111,465. You can see below a breakdown of these substantive cases. Four of the wins were against CLC Sucursal & Continental. The nullity of the...
Last week we saw four substantive cases against Club la Costa in which we received favourable outcomes for all of them. Together, the monies awarded for these four cases amounted to a total of £55,440. The nullity of these contracts was determined by...
WHAT is believed to be the biggest award in European timeshare history regarding a dispute over a Tenerife timeshare (La Pinta Beach Resort) is now one step away from getting the results for British couple Mr & Mrs Sewell-Rutter from Southampton. See their...
The climate of the working world is not in its finest state at present as we all continue to battle through the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. With that being said, European Consumer Claims continues to service the thousands of timeshare owners who have trusted...
Last week our legal team were successful in obtaining four separate favourable substantive judgements against Club la Costa. In total, the monies awarded from these cases amounted to £78,320 with the highest amount in one case being £28,757. The CLC contracts were...
Reality Check, 2020 has thrown the world into chaos, financial markets have crashed, millions have lost their jobs, cities and countries have been locked down and travel bans have been enforced. For most, the focus has been on staying safe and ensuring where possible...
In the previous week, we obtained a victory in a case against Restotel SA. This was an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Alicante, in which we kept the first decision in our favour. The contract was declared null because it doesn't fulfil the requirements of law...
Last week, our legal team received favourable judgements in four separate Club la Costa cases where the monies awarded accumulated to a total of £65,068. In one of the cases, as with so many CLC cases, the judgement was made based on the contract lacking determination...
Last week our largest victory was against Club La Costa, with the monies awarded totalling £27,890. This judgement is based on the law 04/2012 which led to the nullity of the contract. This means the agreement did not contain sufficient detail, was found to be in...
Last weeks judgements include victories against Anfi, Club la Costa, Majexo and Ecomar Continental & Leisure Dimensions. We received favourable judgements in two cases against Anfi Sales & Anfi Resorts, together they accumulated £29,796 in monies awarded. We...
Our victory against La Pinta took place in the Court of Appeal against Holidayway Marketing SL & Las Vistas Marketing SL. The AP Santa Cruz Court in Tenerife came to the decision that each company is responsible to reimburse the amount of its own contract, the...
Our largest outcome in the previous week came from the case against Anfi Sales and Anfi Tauro. The contract lacked sufficient determination to satisfy the law. The judge included in the decision that the amount to be reimbursed to the client must be increased with the...
It has come to our attention, that Anfi Sales SL are contacting all Anfi Members with regards to signing a new agreement with a Fiduciary Company called Continental Trustee Ltd. This is to guarantee a strict control of property inventory although there is no...
As you probably have seen over the past few months during the COVID-19 pandemic, video chat has exploded in subscribers, we even saw the Houses of Parliament conduct video meetings with Boris Johnson. The platform used – Zoom! Zoom reported that during March their...
Last week the legal team were successful in a case against Explotacion Hotelera, Royal Park Albatros, that was heard in the High Court of Tenerife. The outcome was £19,353 in monies awarded as well as costs being awarded. In our most recent case against Club la...
In the High Court of Tenerife, the legal team recently secured £34,077 in monies awarded for one of our clients. Diamond attempted to appeal our previous victory however the court supported the decision that the contract was null. As well as keeping the original award...
This week, the legal team secured a further 10 favourable jurisdiction judgements against Club La Costa. The contractual names of these cases being; CLC SucursalCLC Paradise TradingCLC Continental ResortsCLC PLC UK All cases heard in courts throughout Fuengirola and...
Malaga based firm of lawyers M1 Legal working in conjunction with European Consumer Claims represented a British client against Resort Development Organisation member, Club la Costa World at the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal in Malaga (Appeal proceeding...
Our most recent victory is against CLC Continental Resorts that took place in Arona court. In this case, the judge was very abrupt with Club la Costa, stating that they are clearly a scam company and all they do is to mislead customers. The key point was the lack of...
Are you planning to travel to your timeshare any time soon?Are you prepared to wear a mask for the entire time you are travelling through the airports and on the airplane? Are you prepared to sit in the airport for 4 hours a time?Are you prepared for limited or...
We’ve recently had a victory against Silverpoint in the High Court of AP Las Palmas. This case was won based on the nullity of the contract. Our clients were awarded £22,000. We also obtained a victory against Vista Amadores & Puerto Calma, this case was heard in...
Having paid your maintenance fees for 2020 and given the inability to use your resort raises the question will you be paying 2021 fees? To our knowledge not one resort has offered maintenance fee refunds! Some have offered credit notes towards a future holiday, but...
In the past week we have been successful in cases against Diamond, Anfi and Club La Costa. Our case against Diamond was held in Fuengirola Court where it was determined that the contract provided to our client when purchasing the timeshare failed to contain enough...
This week we are proud to say that we reached £127,758 in monies awarded through CLC cases alone. As found in many timeshare contracts with Club La Costa, in three of these cases, the agreements were found not to contain sufficient detail on accommodation...
Flight Cancellations – Continued Maintenance Fees exacerbated by lockdown! The Timeshare Consumer Association (TCA) are a timeshare owner’s body who stand up for consumers’ rights in timeshare. The lockdowns that are being enforced throughout the globe mean that most...
During this week, we were victorious in a case against Club la Costa UK Surcusal, we lost this case in the first instance. However, we won the appeal before the High Court. The timeshare contract was signed with one of the companies that CLC holds in the Isle of Man,...
With the Spanish courts having been closed for more than a month now, it’s refreshing to be able to report on some favourable judgements. While the courts are closed, the people behind the scenes along with the judges are still working away. New cases are being...
The timeshare industry has a polluted reputation throughout. Whether it’s the resorts misleading consumers into their timeshare agreements or someone else claiming they will legally get them out of their timeshare but won’t actually follow through. What might...
The facts In the first three short months of 2020 we have achieved a lot and we have numerous success stories to report on. We take this opportunity to review what the first quarter of this year has brought us. Cases can take some time to get through the...
By now, most of you are probably aware that as of Monday evening, the UK Prime Minister addressed the nation imposing a mandatory lockdown restricting outdoor activities and pleaded for the public to stay home. Very similar to the current situation in Spain, where...
One of our most recent victories in court was against Club La Costa (CLC), where our legal team secured a favourable judgement that brought our clients £43,085.26 in awards. In addition to this we also had a further two victories against Club La Costa...
Four defeats for Anfi in the court this week as our legal team bring in more victories. These cases were heard in San Bartolomé de Tirajana Court, Gran Canaria. The total money awarded to our clients from these victories amounts to £37,946.90. Two of the cases were...
Purchasing a timeshare is a lot easier than trying to dispose of one. European Consumer Claims have huge success when it comes to claiming against timeshare groups and resorts in Europe. The success rate for claims cases in Spain alone is at 96%. We do however also...
Our largest favourable judgement came from a case against Anfi Sales, heard in Sant Bartolomé de Tirajana Court. The key points for the case were that the contract exceeded the legal limit as well as lacking specific accommodation details, which have led to its...
We’ve had favourable judgements against a variety of timeshare resorts/groups over the past week. Contractual names of: CLC SucursalCLC Continental ResortsPC Marketing Balear (CLC)Sunset Beach The cases were heard in Fuengirola Court (Spain), Arona Court (Tenerife),...
Our case against Anfi was heard in San Bartolomé Tirajana 5 Court. This was a great victory, as the judge declared nullity of the timeshare contract as well as the financial loan (including interests). Anfi were ordered to reimburse the total value including interests...
There were numerous cases in the courts for us last week. Our largest victories were against Club La Costa. Under the contractual names of; Club La Costa Paradise TradingClub La Costa Sucursal España These cases were heard in Arona nº 5 and Fuengirola nº 5 Courts,...
Annual maintenance fees can be hard to keep up with year after year. Many timeshare owners are under the illusion that you are able to stop paying your maintenance bills and in turn the problem will disappear. The decision to stop paying is risky business and will...
Last week we had several cases in the courts. We defeated Anfi Sales SL & Anfi Resorts SL in 3 of those cases; all heard in San Bartolomé Tirajana, nº 5 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Through these we managed to get a total of £27,795.51 awarded to our clients. The...
Our recent client from Cornwall, Mr. Townsend, has been awarded over €20,000 in a recent legal battle over an unwanted timeshare agreement. Back in 2000, Mr. Townsend bought a one-bedroom apartment for week 38 on a fixed week timeshare basis at Airtours Beach Club,...
This week we were victorious in 4 separate cases against ANFI sales. They were heard in San Bartolomé de Tirajana nº 3, nº 1 and nº 5 in Gran Canaria. Contracts given to our clients when originally purchasing their contracts were deemed unlawful as the contract...
Before Christmas, we gave one of our clients the greatest gift of all – a win. But the win also came with a huge payout of €16,000. This is one of the latest victories from our team. The UK couple, in their 70s, told us that a “big weight has been lifted” after we...
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