02.11.2012 - 12:06 [ El Pais ]

Banks have turned courts into „collection offices,“ say judges

Four associations of judges and three associations of prosecutors warned on Tuesday that they will relegate matters brought to them by banks – among them evictions, which are causing massive backlogs in the courts – unless they are given adequate means to deal with them. „Banks have turned the courts into their collection offices,“ says the spokesperson for the Professional Association for the Magistracy (APM).