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Management of Civil Litigation

Code: 102205
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Law OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Francisco Ramos Romeu
Email :
francisco.ramos@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Francisco Ramos Romeu
Maria Consuelo Ruiz De la Fuente

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

To attend this course previous enrollment in Procedural Law I and Procedural Law II is recommended during the 3rd year of the Law Degree; these two courses offer basic training in relation to the procedural legal system and without them the contents of Civil Litigation’s Management cannot be properly understood nor analysed.

The teaching of this course will be given taking into account the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Group: Prof. Francisco Ramos Romeu and Consuelo Ruiz de la Fuente (Spanish)

Objectives

The main objective of this course is to broaden students’ knowledge and understanding of the different phases of Civil proceedings and conflicts.

Learning outcomes

  1. Efficiently managing information, being capable of assimilating a considerable volume of data in a limited amount of time.
  2. Demonstrating a sensible and critical reasoning: analysis, synthesis, conclusions.
  3. Working in teams, being either a member or a coordinator of working groups, as well as making decisions affecting the whole group.
  4. Working in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.
  5. Defining the basic procedural concepts.
  6. Relating the basic procedural concepts to the rest of legal disciplines.
  7. Identifying the procedural issues presented in every practical case.
  8. Managing the sources and resources needed in order to find the solutions to the practical cases.
  9. Using the legal procedural language.
  10. Distinguishing the procedural and non-procedural documents of the several procedural fields.
  11. Identifying the arisen procedural problems and looking for a solution for them in the several sources and resources studied.

Contents


TOPIC 1: THE ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION


TOPIC 2: ARBITRATION


TOPIC 3: THE JUDICIAL PROCESS


TOPIC 4: THE MECHANISMS OF VOLUNTARY JURISDICTION


TOPIC 5: INSOLVENCY MECHANISMS

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
master class 22 0.88 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11
practical activities in the classroom 22 0.88 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
personal work of the student 86 3.44 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Evaluation 5 0.2 2, 7

In this course, students learn how to manage and resolve civil conflicts based on practical cases and simulations that are developed in the classroom and that require the distribution of roles among students, team cooperation, and the coordination of different activities within the framework of conflict resolution processes. A firm commitment is required from the students regarding regular attendance to classes and the completion of the tasks assigned throughout the course, without which the planned activities cannot be carried out, affecting the rest of the group.


The learning process of the students within the framework of this course will be organized around directed and autonomous activities:


1. DIRECTED ACTIVITIES

The theoretical-practical directed activities are carried out in the classroom, at the scheduled times and under the direction of the teaching staff.

On the theoretical side, they will consist in the presentation by the teaching staff of the various conflict management mechanisms of the syllabus and the practical support cases that students must develop, act on and resolve.

In its practical aspect, the students, in the classroom, individually or in small groups, with the support of the teaching staff, will apply themselves to the resolution of the cases that are proposed, the preparation of procedural documents, reports or papers, and the performance of oral procedural acts.


2. AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES

Autonomous activities are all those in which students organize their time and effort autonomously, either individually or in groups and will include in this case the research and study of cases, the preparation of procedural documents, the research of jurisprudence, and the preparation of oral actions that will be carried out in the classroom, among others.

Within the framework of this subject, the essential part of the autonomous activities is linked to the directed activities to be done in the class, of which they are dependent and complementary.

3. SCHEDULE

At the beginning of the course, the schedule of the course will be posted on the Virtual Campus.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Class attendance and participation 50% 5 0.2 5, 6, 7, 9, 11
Preparation and oral presentation in class 25% 5 0.2 1, 6, 7, 9, 11
Preparation of writings or reports: 25% 5 0.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

ASSESSMENT


-There will be 3 evaluation activities, distributed throughout the course which will have the value indicated in the final grade:

1) Preparation of writings or reports: 25%

2) Preparation and oral presentation in class: 25%

3) Class attendance and participation: 50%


-At the beginning of course, the teaching staff will indicate the calendar of these evaluable activities.


REASSESSMENT:

-Students who do not pass the evaluation may take a re-evaluation exam, which will replace evaluation activities 1) and 2) and will have a value of 50% in the final grade.

-The possibility of doing the reassessment is subject to obtaining a minimum grade of 3 in the average final grade of the course.


STUDENTS WHO CANNOT BE EVALUATED

Students will be assessed as long as they have completed a set of activities whose weight is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade of the subject. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the teacher of the subject may consider the student as not assessed.


SINGLE ASSESSMENT

This course does not contemplate a single assessment system.



REVIEW PROCESS:

-After the publication of the grade of each evaluable activity, the teaching staff will set a date to carry out the appropriate review.

ANTI-FRAUD RULE

In the event that the student copies, commits plagiarism or is discovered with a prohibited device in an evaluation test, the teaching staff will grade it with a 0 in this evaluation act, and will notify the Dean of the Faculty by presenting a report on the circumstances and evidence of the event produced to request the opening of a possible disciplinary file against the student. This evaluation activity will not be recoverable. In the event that there is more than one irregularity in the evaluation acts of the same course, the final grade of that subject is 0.


USE OF AI

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information research, proofreading or translations. The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how they have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. The non-transparency of the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in cases of severity.


Bibliography

MANDATORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

RAMOS MÉNDEZ, Enjuiciamiento Civil, 2 vols., Atelier, Barcelona, last edition.

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

RAMOS MÉNDEZ, Juicio civil, Atelier, Barcelona, last edition.

 CACHÓN CADENAS, La ejecución procesal civil, Atelier, Barcelona, last edition. 

 GIMENO SENDRA, Derecho procesal I. El proceso de declaración. Parte general, Castillo de Luna, Madrid, last edition. 

 GIMENO SENDRA, Derecho procesal civil II. Los procesos especiales, Castillo de Luna, Madrid, last edition. 

 CÁMARA RUIZ, CUCARELLA GALIANA, ORTELLS RAMOS, Derecho procesal civil, Aranzadi, Navarra, last edition. 

 NIEVA FENOLL, Derecho Procesal I. Introducción; II. Proceso Civil, Marcial Pons, Barcelona, last edition.

 NIEVA FENOLL. BUJOSA VADELL (Dirs.), Nociones preliminares de derecho procesal civil, Atelier, Barcelona, last edition.  

 CORTÉS DOMÍNGUEZ, MORENO CATENA, Derecho procesal civil, Tirant lo Blanch, València, last edition. Available online at http://biblioteca.tirant.com/cloudLibrary/login/login?username=UAB&password=8zM8jgWE&redirectto=/ebook/show/9788413362175.

 ASENCIO MELLADO, Derecho procesal civil, Tirant lo Blanch, València, last edition. Available online at http://biblioteca.tirant.com/cloudLibrary/login/login?username=UAB&password=8zM8jgWE&redirectto=/ebook/show/9788491191193.

 MONTERO AROCA, GÓMEZ COLOMER, MONTÓN REDONDO, BARONA VILAR, Derecho Jurisdiccional I Proceso Civil, Tirant lo Blanch, València, last edition Available online at http://biblioteca.tirant.com/cloudLibrary/login/login?username=UAB&password=8zM8jgWE&redirectto=/ebook/show/9788413139227.

 MARTÍN OSTOS, Materiales de derecho procesal, Tecnos, Madrid, last edition. 

 ARMENTA DEU, Lecciones de derecho procesal civil, Marcial Pons, Barcelona, last edition.

Software

No special software is used.

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish first semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Spanish first semester morning-mixed