Public debt claim
Turning an unpaid invoice into an enforceable title.
Does your case qualify?The service
A lawyer who practises in that forum opens the claim against the debtor body through whichever domestic route applies — a monitorio in Spain, a decreto ingiuntivo in Italy, an injunção in Portugal — and carries it until the debt is recognised in an enforceable title in your name.
This is where everything else starts: without a final domestic title there is nothing to take to Strasbourg.
- Against whom
- The body that is not paying
- Route
- Monitorio · Decreto ingiuntivo · Injunção
- What you get
- An enforceable title in your name
Four steps, and at each one you know what you provide and what we do.
A written demand to the debtor body
Before litigating, the lawyer formally demands payment, invoice by invoice with its due date. Sometimes the body pays at this stage, and the demand also fixes the date from which interest runs.
Monitorio, decreto ingiuntivo or injunção
We file through the fast track each country reserves for documented debt. A lawyer of the forum signs it; we direct the strategy.
If the body objects, it goes to trial
The debtor may object and open ordinary proceedings. If it does not, the claim becomes final without further steps and in far less time.
You come out with an enforceable title in your name
The procedure ends in an enforceable ruling. It is the piece everything afterwards needs, at home and abroad.
- Principal claimed
- € 12.847.500,00
- Demand
- In progress
- Procedure
- Pending
- Opposition
- Pending
- Title
- Pending
What the engagement covers. Point by point, what we take on.
Before filing
- Review of invoices and sign-offs
- Principal, interest and costs computed
- Identification of the body and its budget
- Choice of procedural route
The procedure
- Drafting and filing of the claim
- Lawyer and court agent of the forum
- Deadlines and service tracked
- Reply to the debtor’s objection
On completion
- The enforceable title obtained
- Outcome report
- Recommendation on the next steps
Who engages us for this
The creditor profiles that most often arrive at this engagement.
Further reading. Three articles that go into the detail.
- Insights
Italy: The Pinto Remedy and Where It Stops Working
Law 89/2001 gave Italy a domestic answer to excessive length of proceedings. It is a gate you have to pass before Strasbourg — and the Court has already ruled on the ways it fails.
- Insights
Spain: What Counts as Exhausting Domestic Remedies
More Spanish applications fail on exhaustion than on any question of substance. The recurso de amparo is usually the reason — taken when it was not required, skipped when it was.
- Insights
Still Waiting to Get Paid?
Contracts, tenders, or public-sector employment can leave creditors waiting years for money already owed. The ECHR has ruled that indefinite waiting is not neutral — it is a violation.