Gran Canaria coach crash: lawyers highlight differences between Spanish and UK laws about accident i

Added : ( Thu Sep 23 2004 )

Responding to enquiries that they have received regarding Monday’s tragic coach crash in the Canary Islands, two members of the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL), Spanish lawyer Alberto Perez Cedillo and Ayr solicitor Angus Logan, have pointed out the implications of differences in the Spanish and UK legal systems regarding accident and injury compensation claims.

Under Spanish law, criminal and civil proceedings usually run in tandem, whereas in the UK criminal proceedings take place first, after completion of which civil proceedings may be considered.

Victims of the Canary Islands coach crash and their families might be well advised to consider initiating accident and injury compensation claims in Spain as soon as possible, and not at a later date as might have been the case had the accident happened in the UK.

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Angus Logan is Scottish Secretary of the Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL) and Director of the Accident & Injury Claims Centre, a division of Ayr-based Frazer Coogans Solicitors.

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