Nicolas Maurandi, one of the historical members of the contentious chamber of the Supreme court, has died this Monday at the age of 71. Maurandi, who presided over the second section of the third chamber, entered the Supreme Court in 1999 and his signature is, among other sentences, in which twenty years ago he recognized for the first time as a merit for the judges knowledge of the language of the territory in which you intend to practice.
Maurandi (1950) graduated in Law from the University of Murcia and entered the judiciary and the body of judicial secretaries in 1977 simultaneously. Eleven years later he specialized in contentious-administrative matters and entered the third chamber of the Supreme Court in 1999, being a member of his government hall in the last two terms. He had previously gone through the courts of San Sebastián de la Gomera, Mula, Barcelona and Alicante in addition to the Court of Albacete and the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia.
In 2008 he was on the verge of entering the constitutional Court. It was unsuccessfully proposed by the Murcia Regional Assembly on the Senate lists to go to the court of guarantees in a joint proposal of the PP and PSOE. “What I have to underline is that I am a judgeIt is the activity to which I have dedicated my life, it is the activity in which I have remained for 33 years, “he explained in 2010 in the Senate Appointments Committee.
Graced with the Cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort in 2011, his signature appears in some of the most relevant judgments in recent years of the contentious-administrative chamber: since in 2001 he endorsed the criteria of the CGPJ to consider as a merit that a The judge, for example, spoke Catalan if he was going to practice in Catalonia, as most recently in the ruling that he tried to get the mortgage tax to be paid by the bank and not by the client.
A magistrate linked to Murcia
He was born in Villena but grew up in Lorca and according to what is highlighted from his surroundings, he was always a “very vocational” magistrate who sought clarity in his sentences, teaching for more than a decade at the University of Murcia. He was proposed, although unsuccessfully, to form part of the Constitutional Court at the proposal of the Regional Assembly of Murcia after an agreement between PP and PSOE, finally not getting a seat in the court of guarantees.
His signature appears on some of the longest-running sentences in the third chamber of the Supreme Court. In 2001 he was the rapporteur of the resolution that recognized as a merit that a judge knew the language of the territory in which he chose to work, in 2009 he was the speaker of the sentence on the subject of Education for Citizenship and in the sentence that, before be revoked for the plenary session, he opted for the so-called mortgage tax to be borne by the bank and not the customer.
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