A Lawyer in Granada was fined 2,700 euros and barred from practicing for 15 months for basically deceiving his own client. He was absolved of forgery, however but condemned for professional disloyalty.

The said client had hired him to take legal actions under Civil Law against somebody who owed him money. The lawyer’s fee was to be a percentage obtained once the judicial action had concluded.

However, the lawyer never presented the case before a law court, despite what he had agreed to do in his client’s name. He did, however, lead his client to believe that he had. The client asked him on repeated occasions on how it was going and was answered always that it was ongoing.

At one point he even handed over a summons, requiring his client to be in court on the 18th of December, 2013. The day arrived and when he went to the court house he was informed by the lawyer that it had been postponed. He even showed him a document that supposedly confirmed that his case had been registered, when in reality, it hadn’t

The client finally discovered the following year that no claim had ever been submitted after hiring another lawyer, whom he later used to sue his previous one.

Now, this sentence imposing a fine and barring has been appealed against in the High Court of the land, which has been accepted for consideration. The Granada College of Laywers had also participated as a private prosecution claimant.

(News: Granada, Andalucia)