Subject: Congratulations and Thank You for 6 Years of “Justice”
To the attention of the Judicial System of the Region of Murcia and the Cartagena College of Solicitors: I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for the impeccable protection I have received over the past six years as a foreign national in Spain.
My congratulations to the Cartagena Court for allowing the same judge who dismissed my gender violence case in 2021 to later oversee the plaintiff’s (ex-romantic partner) “precarious eviction” case against me in 2022. They undoubtedly ensured that my transition from unprotected victim to woman stripped of her life plans was seamless.
Public Appointed Lawyer
Special thanks to my court-appointed lawyer in 2022. Her brilliant legal advice, telling me to “go back to the UK” is truly remarkable. I should include the court official from instance 3, as well as the security guard who acted as an unpaid translator on many occasions when I turned up to assert my human rights. These two individuals actually helped me. I was informed 5 days before the court hearing that “Your lawyer is not helping you” and “you need to sack her and file an official complaint.”
Had you done your job in June 2022, it would have come to light that the plaintiff had already sold a property in the UK for £420,000, and he was refusing to pay a signed settlement agreement of £40,000 after 11 years of a formal relationship. After informing me that “the Judge will order my eviction” on the day of the court hearing. You attempted to redeem yourself with an appeal, which I was told would “give me more time.” While I was in constant trauma, I was seeking other legal advice. I needed all of the court files before another lawyer would be able to look at the situation. That was when I discovered the court letter that gave me the proof I needed to file the complaint to the College of Solicitors.
I understood the reason why the Court 3 Verbal Hearing lasted all of 5 minutes. It was there in black and white in the letter dated May 30th 2022.
“…we are required to state whether we will request the interrogation of the plaintiff in order to hire a translator given that the plaintiff does not know the language, wherefore we state that this counsel will not request the interrogation of the plaintiff…” The reasons given in the letter, “…in any case, neither of the parties speaks or understands Spanish…” and her client /defendant (me) “…the defendant having been officially granted legal aid (lacking any kind of income)…” These are grounds of “discrimination” in a court of law: language and socio-economic status.. Thanks to your negligence, I was forced to liquidate my own pension plan in July 2022 simply to survive.
The Judge Will Assess The Intention To Seek An Out Of Court Settlement By The Plaintiff
After receiving his “Happy New Year Loraine” Email on Tuesday 4th January 2022. at 14:57
And the follow-up.
Subject: Re: Sale of Las Zinas 9 January at 15:49
Before we discuss this any further, I need to know if you have seen the documents I am sending you in a separate email subject Court Case.
If you have not seen or if you have chosen not to engage with this court case you are at risk of the Guardia Civil turning up unexpectedly, and then you will leave with just
your personal possessions. I’m not being vindictive, I just want my house back. You need to plan your departure.
I replied on Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022, 01:33.
“Without Prejudice”
RE Court Case.
The parties by common agreement, may also request the suspension of the process in accordance with the provisions of the
section 4 of article 19 of the Civil Procedure Law, to submit to mediation.
Without any real legal advocacy. I had no idea that the private signed out-of-court financial agreement from 27th July 2021 might be grounds to actually stop the “precarious” eviction that went ahead on June 10th 2022.
Needless to say, the Judge never made any assessment of the intention of the plaintiff to seek an out-of-court settlement. And I was silenced in a court of law because I was an English foreigner who did not understand Spanish, plus I lacked any form of income and was so impoverished that I had a public-appointed lawyer.
The actual eviction process was iniated in October 2020 as soon as I was left in the Spanish home. The swap to a Barcelona lawyer happened during the mediation attempt, because I was copied into the email where the ex-person decided to inform the mediation company of his choice of a specialist.
Date: 18 Jun 2021 18:08 To The Waypoint Mediation Company
QUOTE: I appointed a new solicitor based in Barcelona who is a specialist in this type of eviction. As of now, the equivalent of a letter before action has been sent to Loraine and the paperwork has been started in its queue.
Thank you for making sure I knew you had started to process the threatened eviction. So you could move between accept €13,000 or leave with nothing, that is not even a “negotiation.” Years later, I discovered the BUROFAX that the Barcelona lawyer sent that was never received. It was in the files that the public appointed solicitor sent to me just before I made my complaint to the College of Solicitors in Cartagena. It was dated 11 May 2021.
Congratulations to all the legal professionals involved on ignoring the physical harassment. Thank you for doing nothing when my ex-partner sent an eviction company to my door after cutting off my utilities in 2023, treating me like a squatter in my own home. And thank you, of course, for allowing the plaintiff to send a locksmith and a neighbour to the house in March 2024, fully aware that the eviction proceedings had been suspended by the court itself.
Seven Criminal Allegations
And a special thank you for believing the “romantic” ex-partner who had deceived me for so many years. The one that sold me a beautiful dream of a secure retirement in Spain and pulled the ground from under my feet as soon as he went to the solicitor to cancel his Spanish Will. The Will that named me as the sole beneficiary to the property he wanted to sell.
Another two years of “fear” and “uncertainty” from October 2022 to October 2024.
And a huge debt of gratitude goes to the Criminal Lawyer in Madrid; he was the only legal advisor who seemed to know what was going on.
I was extremely fortunate that all of the farcical allegations against me were completely dismissed by the Judge of Court 5 by the end of October 2024
Thank you for a process that stripped me of an 11-year life plan, ignored a 26-minute, coercive, consensual recording, allowed me to be cut off from water, exposed me to thugs, and left me with exactly €25 in my bank account. They have protected procedural fraud, ignored harassment, erased 11 years of coexistence, and called it the rule of law.
The Phantom Eviction Procedure
Finally, thank you to the Barcelona lawyer for keeping this shameful “precarious eviction” case active until June 2026. Your dedication was so profound that no one at the courthouse noticed that the plaintiff had already secretly sold our home in December 2025 for €130,000. Processing the eviction of a life partner from a property the plaintiff no longer even owned is a masterpiece of procedural management.
Congratulations on a job well done. Truly a Gold Medal Standard.
Ann Loraine Marshall
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