The New Civil Procedure Code and the law for its application generate a transformation of the paradigm as regards the temporal application of the civil procedural law, operating a replacement of the system based on the isolation of the procedural act by the system focused on the stages of the civil process.The law for the application of the new Civil procedure code was requisite in order to endorse the transition form the former code to t...

In Case C-681/11 Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, Bundeskartellanwalt v Schenker & Co. and Others, in a judgment issued on 18 June 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) considered that a company that infringed EU competition rules cannot be exempt from the application of a fine in spite of claims that it relied on legal advice given by a lawyer with regard to the compatibility of its behaviour with n...