by Natalie | Nov 8, 2022 | Legal & Financial
If you have no interest in British politics you can count yourselves lucky. They’ve just had a change of Prime Minister, the big blonde PM has just been replaced by a smaller blonde one, Liz Truss. They didn’t have a general election or anything sensible like that....
by Natalie | Nov 1, 2022 | Legal & Financial
Today we will review the beginnings of Maritime Law, through the first mentions of a regulation referring to the sea. As it could not be otherwise in this visit to the most remote past of Law, we will focus on the rules concerning the sea that we can find in one of...
by Natalie | Oct 10, 2022 | Legal & Financial
If you have recently topped up the tank of your car, or boat recently, you will no doubt have winced at the price. It’s gone up a lot. When the price of fuel goes up, so does everything else. There can’t be a product on earth that doesn’t have the...
by Natalie | Oct 3, 2022 | Legal & Financial
We have bought a second-hand motor yacht and just after its acquisition defects in the engine force us to spend sometimes more money than the price of the boat itself. Questions: What is the legal situation according to Spanish law, how long can the warranty be...
by Natalie | Aug 1, 2022 | Legal & Financial
The Maritime Mobile Service Identity or MMSI is the 9 digit number that identifies each ship’s station for safety and radiocommunications purposes, and which must be programmed in the automatic digital selective call (DSC) radiocommunications equipment of ships...
by Natalie | Jul 14, 2022 | Legal & Financial
VAT or to Transfer Tax in the purchase of a vessel in Spain by non residents? Without prejudice of the Matriculation Tax the purchase in Spain by a non entrepreneurial, that is, a private person may trigger VAT or Transfer Tax. We leave the Matriculation Tax out of...