Checking date: 26/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Civil Practice I
(16939)
Master in Legal Practice and Representation (Plan: 513 - Estudio: 271)
EPD


Coordinating teacher: CARRETERO MORALES, EMILIANO

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 5.0 ECTS

Course:
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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction: Practice in the civil process: principles that inform the civil process. Ordinary declarative processes: Classes and characteristics. The small claims European order for payment process. 2. Friendly extrajudicial procedures: strategies against the conflict, evaluation of the costs of the conflict. The performance of the Lawyer and the Attorney General in the preparatory and/or avoidance acts of the process. 2.1) Mediation and other appropriate means of dispute resolution. 2.2) Relationship of the lawyer with the client and with other legal operators (other lawyers, solicitors, judges and prosecutors, registrars, notaries) 2.3) Voluntary jurisdiction: Characteristics. File classes. Competence. Appeal means. Intervention of the Procurement professional on a mandatory or optional basis 3. Acts prior to the process: the conciliation act and the preliminary proceedings. Litigation preparation: collection of evidence and documents. The principle of the acts themselves. Expiration and prescription. The allegation phase: claim and response. Action of the Lawyer and the Procurement professional in the initial phases of demand and response 4. The Prior Hearing. 4.1) content and development. 4.2) Means of proof. Strategies in the proposition and in the practice of proof 5. Act of trial and conclusions 6. Resources. The means of challenging in the civil process against procedural resolutions. Strategies before the execution of the sentence. extraordinary resources 7. Precautionary measures. The performance of the Lawyer and the professional of the Procurement in the precautionary protection 8. The execution process. 8.1) Provisional execution. 8.2) Forced execution. The monetary execution: Seizure of assets, judicial deposit. The intervention of the Attorney General in the investigation of the patrimony of the executed Non-monetary executions: Modalities. Requirements. Economic constraints and coercive fines. Execution at the expense of the executed. Conversion into monetary execution and its insurance. The Associations of Solicitors as depositories of embargoed movable property. Deposit Service: operational and functioning. 8.3) The way of enforcement. Load certification. Appraisal of assets. 8.4) The forced realization of movable and immovable property. Forms of forced realization, special reference to the judicial public auction, the realization agreement and the sale by person or specialized entity. The consideration of the Association of Solicitors as an entity specialized in the realization of goods. 8.5) Foreclosure: common foreclosure process and special foreclosure process. The performance of the Procurement professional in the processes that lead to the release. Execution of the pledge without displacement of possession. The use of new information technologies in the execution process
Learning activities and methodology
I. The course is divided into five different blocks. Each block is taught by the professors and professionals that can be found in the timetable offered by the platform (Aula Global) II. There are two different parts within Práctica Civil I, one of them containing the most part of the subject: 1. In the first part is dedicated to the different tasks that a practicing lawyer must perform in his or her non judicial practice, giving legal advice, negotiating, and drawing strategies before an open conflict arises. 2. The second part have different blocks follow the different phases of ordinary civil proceedings (lawsuit and response to the lawsuit; pre-hearing, proof and probation procedure, summons for final judgment; enforcement and enforcement procedures; precautionary measures and means of review. III. Tutorials: a) There is a final tutorial session, as can be seen in the mentioned timetable that can be found in Aula Global b) For personal tutorage, a message should be sent to emiliano.carretero@uc3m.es
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.