A provincial court has rejected an appeal lodged by the Almuñécar cleaning company, Mirlo S.L., saving the Town Hall from a 1.5m payout.

The company, which previously held a contract with the Town Hall,  demanded to be reimbursed for several unpaid bills plus interest and costs.

More precisely, they wanted the court to reject Almuñécar Town Hall’s settlement (liquidation) of the amount owed because in the opinion of the company the administration had not followed the 2016 sentencing guidelines.

The lawyer representing Mirlo S.L. set out that the Town Hall had stopped honouring the company’s bills between July 2007 and August 2008 “without justification.” The Town Hall lawyer, on the other hand, accuses the company of rehashing claims that had been rejected in previous court sentences.

After examining both parties’ presentations, the magistrate rejected the company’s appeal, although Mirlo S.L. can appeal before a higher court; the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía.

This conflict goes back a long way as many readers will remember when the company called a rubbish-collection strike in 2007 involving its 80-member workforce. The reaction of the Town Hall, then under Juan Carlos Benavides, was to cancel the company’s contract, which leads us to the present day and this latest judicial decision.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)