The "accessory claim" for compensation damages in the contentious-administrative process

Abstract

This paper analyzes the scope of Article 31.2 of the Spanish Administrative Procedure Act which leads to lodge, as an accessory claim linked to the main plaintiff, the compensation for damages in a unique process. As a result we discuss the consequences and particularities of admitting this type of secondary claim versus the more heterodox and traditional position that it forces to exercise a previous action in the administrative procedure through the action of public liability.

Based on arguments reached by jurisprudence as they are presented in this paper, I establish that is possible to request the compensation of damages by using this accessory action as a part of the main claim.