Antonio Pedro Rodríguez Bernal is set to take on the defence of a man charged with homicide, this being a case well-covered by the Spanish media in the last week. El País (6-3-2014) ABC (6-3-2014) La Sexta (6-3-2014) El Mundo (6-3-2014) Telecinco (6-3-2014) Article by Mark Athos Franklin, English lawyer at the Rodriguez Bernal law firm….
Five days ago the Rajoy Government approved the preliminary draft of the Law for the Protection of the Life of the Conceived and of Pregnant Women’s Rights. It is a controversial project, in as much as it collides with the socialist reform of 2010, which regarded abortion as a “woman’s right”, and that did little…
After the release of Inés del Río, after the recent and controversial judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the “Parot doctrine”, it seems that Spanish society has been somewhat disappointed with the functioning of Justice in its country. Not only has a woman condemned to 3.828 years in prison for having committed…
It has been three days since the presentation of the draft of the very controversial “Law of Public Safety” in the Council of Ministers. It is a reform that has left few people indifferent, since it affects acts such as insults to public authority or demonstrations without permission before the Congress, that may soon be…
As you may already know, on the 20th of September a draft for a reform of the Spanish Penal Code was published, which, according to Minister for Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, promises to “transform” this branch of the Spanish legal system. The text covers a multitude of facets of criminal law, although its most distinctive feature…
