Strong representation of the Gabarró Advocats -Herències- team at the conference organised by the Notarial College of Catalonia https://www.colegionotarial.org/ca/, the ICAB https://www.icab.es/en/index.html, and the Catalan Government https://web.gencat.cat/en/inici/index.html, following the recent approval of Procedural Efficiency Law 1/2025, which marks a paradigm shift in civil and commercial court proceedings and, consequently, in negotiation too, as claimants must now describe prior negotiation efforts in the lawsuit itself or risk inadmissibility.

A challenge to uphold confidentiality, with increased time and costs.

And hanging over all: the new rules on legal costs.

Still, let’s give ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) a chance — only practice will tell if it helps ease the court backlog by reducing lawsuits and speeding up proceedings, or makes things worse.