Reyes Ingeniería S.A. v. Spain
European Court of Human Rights · Third Section
- Domestic decision
- STS 3.ª · 12/03/2024
- Recognised debt
- €12,847,500.00
- Domestic remedies
- Exhausted
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 § 1 · Art. 1 P1
- Four-month time limit
- Met
Service companies
Operators running local public services.
Does your case qualify?Your situation
The service has not stopped. The payments have.
These are recurring, well documented claims, and it is exactly that regularity that makes them worth pursuing as a block.
- 01Done
You provided the service month after month.
- 02Done
Every invoice was documented.
- 03Pending
The local authority keeps piling up arrears.
This is where our work begins.
What we do
What we do for this profile.
Five services that a service company engages us for. You can start with any of them; the claim viability opinion is the usual way in.
- 01Claim viability opinionA lawyer from Ontier assesses your claim and tells you whether it is actionable, through which route, and what documentation is missing.
- 02Public debt claimA local lawyer pursues the unpaid debt before the debtor body until it is recognised in an enforceable title in your name.
- 03Claim before the ECHRWe take your unenforced ruling to Strasbourg, where the State answers for what its bodies do not pay.
- 04Enforcement against the StateWe follow the European ruling through to payment: an enforceable title against the State, and attachment if it comes to that.
- 05End-to-end managementThe whole route in one engagement, from the first missed invoice to the payment of the award.
How we run it
One person accountable for the whole journey. No changing your point of contact along the way.
We gather the documents, assess the claim and set the strategy for all three phases at once. You know from the start where the whole route is going.
03 · Strasbourg
Application and judgment.
With the domestic title final and still unpaid, the case moves to the European Court of Human Rights, where the State answers for what its bodies have not paid.
- Art. 6 § 1
- Art. 1 Prot. 1
Example file · fictitious
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