The presence of this species in the Montgrí massif contribute to enrich the biodiversity of its environment while helping to prevent fires in a natural way. The numbers of wild goats living in this massif has increased over the last 10 years, reaching about 150 goats.
This season, visitors to the campsite will have the opportunity to observe this interesting species. You can follow one of the new walking routes that have been created in the area of Torre Moratxa to try and see the wild goats close up.
INTRODUCING THE SWIFT-TAKE AWAY, A NEW RSTAURANT CONCEPT IN THE HEART OF JOCS COMPLEX IN L ESTARTIT.
Opening this spring, SWIFT-TAKE AWAY offers a wide variety of hamburgers, creative tapas, salads and sandwiches of all kinds!
Also, SWIFT-TAKE AWAY offers a large range of domestic and imported beers. The venue has been designed to incorporate innovative trends in international gastronomie. It will be open on weekends throuhout the year and everyday during high season, from june to september. The opening hours are from midday to midnight in summer as well as in the winter.
Furthermore and in the same complex, SWIFT-RESTAURANT will offer mediterranean cuisine as well as grilled meats and fish. The restaurant will be open every day from 1st June until 15th September.
WE ARE BACK FOR A NEW SEASON ON FRIDAY 10TH MAY!
Everything is ready to start the new season that run through until the 29th september.
Many facilities have been improved over the winter on both Camping Castell Montgri and Camping Castell Mar: a brandnew reception for Castell montgri and modernisation of the mobile homes.
A new range of entertainment will also be offered on both campsites. At Castell Mar an increase of environmental activities and workshops and for Castell Montgri updated walking itinaries around Castell Montgri and new shows and evening entertaiment during the summer!
If you haven' t booked yet, don't miss out! Here is the linkto both campsites.
Camping Castell Montgri and Castell Mar are sending you best wishes for Christmas and the New Year with this new video!
The teams from both campsites wish you a very merry Christmas!
The video was filmed in the Natural park of Montgri, Medes Islands and Baix Ter, where Castell Montgri is situated. The video also features a herd of Albera cows, which have been living near Torre Ponsa, an area owned by Ramon Mascort, the director of the Mascort Grup. Their presence helps to prevent forest fires as they eat the vegetal biomass which in turn avoids it turning combustible in case of a fire.
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a Happy new year! See you soon!!!
CAMPING CASTELL MONTGRÍ HAS STARTED THE PROCESS TO ADHERE TO THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM.
This European accreditation is granted to protected natural areas that have demonstrated their commitment to sustainable tourism. The effort of the Mascort Group will not only mean environmental, social and economic benefits for the territory but also advantages for the campsite with cost savings and improvement of the business image. This distinction, in an increasingly competitive tourism market, is only granted to companies that are committed to sustainability, environmental conservation and local development.
The prestigious award will be delivered on January 9 in Utrecht, during the Tourism Fair called "'Vakantiebeurs". In Spain there are only two nominated campsites – Camping Castell Montgrí and Camping Sangulí in Salou. ANWB is one of the most important automobile clubs in Europe, with more than 4,5 million members. This year, for the first time, its members have been given the opportunity to vote for the best European campsites. The criteria the sites had to meet were: The best family campsite with the best accommodation, the most attractive and most ecological. The fact that Castell Montgrí is a nominee for this award is a recognition of the improvements that have been made in the campsite in recent years.
We already have some great offers for you for 2019! Please check the calendar to see if any of the offers apply to your 2019 holiday dates!
Don't forget you can also receive a 5% discount on any 2019 booking where the balance is paid in full by 31 december 2018! Hurry!!! The clock is ticking!
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF GETTING MARRIED ON A CAMPSITE?
Come and share your vows on camping Castell Montgrí in l'Estartit. Prices start from 46 euros per person for 2 nights accommodation and banquet included.
No need for an airport transfer, car rental or outside providers, everything you need is here!
We can offer a tailor made service, providing everything you need for your big day, including 3 restaurants, private disco, children's entertainment, 3pools… and even a 12th century chapel for you to exchange your vows.
Thank you for another season with us!
We have already started to prepare for your next visit!
Following the great year we had this year we are already starting to work on new projects.
You will find the seasonal offers calendar here.
Win a weeks Holiday in one of our Mobile-homes by Sharing your best holiday snaps from 2018!
To have a chance of winning this great prize, you simply need to share with us your photos of unforgettable moments and memories spent on Camping Castell Montgri or Castell Mar.
Send them to us before the 31st December 2018 and you will have a chance to win a weeks accommodation in a mobil-home for 4 people anytime between 10th May – 16th June or 12th September – 29th September. The photo that gets the most Likes will be the Winner!
The Michael Jackson tribute, who originate from South Africa, have enjoyed real success on the campsite thanks to their unbelievable choreography and amazing vocals. You can check them out for yourselves on the video we made this summer.
Every Saturday night in July and August, the Dutch DJs from the Summer Dance Party had all our clients dancing to the best music ! And there was always a foam party to finish off the night ! Watch the new video here !
Over the last few weeks we have noticed the comeback of red squirrels on the campsite. For a while now they have not been observed and their absence was strange considering there are a large number of pine trees, the natural habitat of squirrels, on the campsite. Squirrels are an emblematic species of the region and a crucial point when deciding which animal would be the mascot for Castell Montgri! Currently, the mascot 'Monti' entertains children who come to spend their holidays at Camping Castell Montgri.
The Empordà Natura is an information center about the natural parks of Montgrí, the Medes islands and Baix Ter, as well as other natural parks in the area. For this summer the range of local eco products has been widened. You can now find, among other products; wines, oils, chocolates, medicinal herbs and pastas.
Also, if you rent a bike for a week from the Emporda Natura center, you get a delicious free pizza from the restaurant Alauda.
THE RESTAURANT 'ALAUDA' IS NOW OPEN!
From 1st of june until the 13 of september the restaurant Alauda, part of the Mascort group, will be open. This restaurant offers traditional mediterranean cuisine and you will also find the best pizzas in the area, spit-roasted chickens, burgers and other dishes to take away. Alauda is situated inside the Jocs complex, at the entrance of l 'Estartit, around 200m from camping Castell Montgrí.
The Panorama sanitary block has been extended and the interior totally renewed (sinks, showers, kitchen sinks) in order to offer better facilities to our clients renting a tent or caravan emplacement in the panorama area. This improvement will for sure be much appreciated by all our friendly campers!
Come and share your vows on camping Castell Montgrí in l'Estartit. Prices start from 46 euros per person for 2 nights accommodation and banquet.
We can offer a tailor made service, providing everything you need for your big day, including 3 restaurants, private disco, childrens entertainment , 3 pools… and even a 12th century chapel for you to exchange your vows.
One of the most popular attractions is back : the Pool Party with inflatables!
Like every summer, the main pool of Camping Castell Montgri – the Panorama pool, will host the very popular pool party! Around 2000 people participate in this event every week in high season and have fun with all kind of inflatable games in the pool. This summer there will be some new inflatables for even more fun!
This species of fish, that lives in marsh areas, is gravely endangered due to the drought in this area but also because of the human urbanisation of their habitatat as well as the introduction by man of the gambusia. In the Pletera Marsh in l'Estartit, around 2 km from the campsite, lives the country's biggest population of Fartets.
Twenty years ago 15 of those fish were introduced in a pond belonging to the group Mascort. The pond recently underwent some refurbishment which is how we discovered the population of fartets has now reached 150.000.
In order to protect the fish they have been temporarily transferred to one of the swimming pools on site where they will stay until April. They will then be reintroduced to the new Lagoons of La Pletera.
The LifePletera project has become a driving force in the protection of this species in Catalonia.
Camping Castell Montgri and Camping Castell Mar have produced a video to wish all their clients a very merry Christmas!
As is now tradition, the staff from both campsites have joined together to record a video for the end of the year festivities. This year, the video was shot to the beautiful backdrop of the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park, where the campsite Castell mar is situated. With this video, we wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year.
Torroella de Montgrí-l'Estartit- Illes Medes enters the 2017 top 100 most sustainable tourist destinations in the world. This ranking was created by the international association Green Destination, and another 20 organisations who are working together to promote sustainable tourism. The award aims at recognising the work done by tourist destinations and their efforts towards sustainability . The participants are selected and evaluated by around 100 experts worldwide.
Real success for the new natural grass of the football pitch.
The state of the football pitch turf has massively improved thanks to the work done last year. A new underground irrigation system, which brings water directly to the roots, was installed on the pitch.
This gives better strength and durability to the grass as well as keeping the surface dry, thus avoiding erosion of the grass.
During the winter the sheep from the campsite farm pasture on the football Pitch – a natural way of taking care of the pitch maintenance!
Camping Castell Montgrí increases and improves its touring pitches for tents and caravans.
This summer, clients of Camping castell Montgri will be able to choose from 3 types of pitches, divided between the ombra and panorama zones.
1-Standard Pitch: situated in the zones Ombra and Panorama, surface area of 70m 2 and 6 amp electrical connection.
2- Comodity Pitch: situated in the Ombra zone, surface area of 90m 2 and 10 amp electrical connection.
3- Comodity Plus Pitch: situated in the Ombra zone, surface area of 120m 2 and 10 amp electrical connection.
We are looking forward to 4th May 2018 – we have already started preparing for your holiday next year!
On 24th September, we finished one of the best seasons in recent years. We had a lot of fun working to give you the best holiday ever and now we are already looking to begin work on improvements and new projects. Booking for 2018 is now available!
You will find here a calendar with the best offers for next season.
Share your unforgettable moments spent on camping Castell Montgrí for the chance to win a free weeks accommodation!
The competition coincides with this Summer's Facebook video, "Unforgettable" and is for all fans of Castell Montgri's Facebook page. Send us the special moments of your holiday at Camping Castell Montgrí for the chance to win a weeks accommodation!
(photos to be uploaded by 31st December. The winner can choose a weeks accommodation in a mobile home for 4 people between 4th May to 17th June or 11th September to 23rd september).
MTV crew filming an episode of the British TV program "Teen Mom" at Camping Castell Montgrí.
The UK MTV show spent a week following an 18-year-old girl and her family (her husband and their two children, 2 years and 6 months respectively) whilst on holiday at the campsite. The program, one of the most popular on MTV, closely follows the daily life of teenage mothers. The couple from Essex live in a camper van. They enjoy the way of life so much that when they travel abroad on holiday they like to stay in a mobile home on a campsite.
The Medes Islands marine reserve continues to be one of the main tourist attractions of the Montgri, Illes Medes i Baix Ter natural park.
Estartit boasts the famous Marine Reserve of the Medes Islands, which is now part of the natural park.
The park is composed of a terrestrial zone, the Aiguamolls and a marine zone. The latter is of great relevance for its biodiversity as it is an area where fishing has been banned for many years. Here you can see many interesting species of fish, gorgonians, marine invertebrates and coral populations.
Guests who wish to explore this nature reserve can do so from Camping Castell Montgrí. We offer different types of excursions and activities.
The Pelegríne falcon keeps away the starlings on Castell Montgrí.
During the summer in this part of the Costa Brava, it is very frequent to see large groups of starlings. These can be a nuisance to humans particularly because of the noise they make and their depositions. Recently, a few pelegrine falcons have been spotted on the campsite and thanks to their presence , they have been preventing the starlings from roosting in the campsite trees. In this natural way, the falcons have helped limit the problems for our customers. You can witness the acrobatic flights of the falcons from the campsite.
The new multifunctional area is called "The Seagull" and has been designed especially for our customers to enjoy a cocktail while playing pool, singing a karaoke song or dancing all night! "The Seagull" is open from 7pm to 4am.
As is now tradition, during the last few weeks camping Castell Montgrí has shot a new video for this summer. Using the famous song "Unforgettable" written by Irving Gordon, and sang by Nat King and Natalie Cole, the video can be seen on all major social networks. We have chosen this song to reflect all the unforgettable moments our clients have experienced during their holidays on Castell Montgri. Susan Bey and Rocco play in the video to which they made a great adaptation . This summer, Susan Bey is playing every Friday at la Bassa. Come and enjoy!
To celebrate the publication of the video a competition has been organised. To participate, you just need to share on our Facebook page photos of your unforgettable holiday moments at Castell Montgri. To win: a weeks accommodation for next season!
The Mascort group, owner of camping Castell Mar and Camping Castell Montgrí, is one of the sponsors of the Sepia project, an initiative that began in the natural park of Montgrí, the Illes medes and the Baix Ter. Its purpose is to restore the population of squid along the Empordà coast. A long time ago these animals were very abundant in the Bay of Pals and Roses, but in recent years there has been a significant reduction in their numbers. There have been three contributing factors for this: the warming of the sea, the contamination of the seabed and, most importantly, overfishing which results in the capture without discrimination of these animals, as well as the destruction of nests before the eggs have hatched.
The Sepia project aims to help counteract the overfishing factor by increasing the number of places where females can lay their eggs, reducing the capture of pregnant females and avoiding the destruction of nests by fishing nets and other equipment. Artisanal fishermen of L'Estartit and L'Escala are actively involved in this project. They work together to maintain the methods of traditional fisheries and encourage sustainable fishing.
Again this year Camping Castell Montgrí and campsite Castell Mar will offer the possibility to book direct excursions to the Catalan capital. The excursions, which include the transfer by bus from the campsite itself, offer various options suchas; the FC Barcelona tour (including pitchside and the Museum), the Barcelona of Gaudí and the magic fountains, amongst others.
Prices : €53 for adults, €48 for +60 years old and €36 for children aged from 3 to 11 years.
If you want to discover Barcelona by yourself , there is a regular bus service from the Sarfa bus company. The bus stop is just in front of the Camping Castell Montgrí. The ticket price is €24.
The new turf was planted a few weeks ago alongside the installation of a new irrigation system which will allow greater resistance and durability of the grass. It is an underground system that brings water directly to the roots. This way the surface doesn't get wet which prevents the erosion of the grass. Our campsite is one of the few in the Catalan region to possess a natural grass football pitch.
This season, customers from the UK and Ireland can benefit from a new shuttle service that is operating between Girona airport and the campsite. This is a pilot project and next year we hope to expand this service by scheduling transfers for departure and arrival times for flights from all over Europe.
It is currently operating to connect with Jet2 flights from the following UK airports: Manchester, East Midlands and Glasgow. From Ireland its scheduled to connect with Ryanair flights from Dublin, Cork and Knock.
Over the last five months, Girona airport has increased its destinations and frequency of flights to the United Kingdom. Next spring, the airport will have direct links with 13 cities: Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, London Stansted, London Luton, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and East Midlands. These services are operated by the airlines Ryanair and Jet2.
In addition, given that both airlines will make the same connections to five destinations (Birmingham, Leeds, London Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle), the number of routes has risen from 10 in 2016 to a total of 18 for 2017.
These new connections to Girona airport will make it even easier to reach the campsite with a connection from the airport of only 45 minutes.
Have you ever thought of getting married on a campsite?
At Camping Castell Montgrí in L'Estartit we have everything you have dreamed of for your big day! We have everything on the spot. There's no need to move from site, take the car or rent any additional services! We offer a personalised wedding, using our restaurants and facilities which include private disco, entertainment for children, 3 pools, and even a XII century chapel to exchange your vows. Prices start at just 46 euros per person for 2 nights accommodation and banquet.
The football pitch equipped with a new natural irrigation system for the grass.
Camping Castell Montgrí's football pitch is in the process of transformation to integrate a new irrigation system which will give the grass greater resistance and durability. It is an underground system that irrigates the roots directly. This way the surface is kept dry and so prevents erosion of the grass. It is rare to find a natural grass football pitch on a campsite in Catalonia, ours is!
A herd of cows grazing in the woods next to camping castell montgri to prevent forest fires.
A very interesting method to prevent fires on the mountain has been put in place near the camping Castell Montgrí. This project takes place in the area of Torre Ponsa (a property owned by the Chairman of our group, Ramon Mascort). For six months a group of 8 cows and an Albera bull feed on and trample the plant biomass to prevent it from becoming a fuel for forest fires.
In the past, large wild herbivores were destroying this 'fuel' in a natural way. As this is no longer possible one solution is to use domestic herbivores, in this case the Albera breed of cows.. In this way we also contribute to the preservation of the breed, which, unfortunately, is endangered.


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The recent changes to their calendar and tournament expansion announced by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday have been met with delight and scorn in equal measure.
It is hard to please everybody at the best of times, and so the changes to both the format and the timing of competitions were always going to bring reactions on different ends of the spectrum.
But one organisation that will be delighted with the changes is South Africa's Premier Soccer League (PSL), which has long battled with the CAF calendar down the years, leading to what was close to a farcical end to the 2016/17 season.
African champions Mamelodi Sundowns had to play an astonishing 30 games in four months across all competitions, and there is no doubt that their horror run of fixtures contributed to them handing their domestic league title over to Bidvest Wits.
The issue for Sundowns was that the South African season and the CAF Calendar were not aligned, leading to many postponements of league fixtures and a bottle-neck that they had to clear at the end of the campaign.
However, the decisions of the CAF Executive Committee this week will go a long way to alleviating that, and rids the PSL of the need, at some considerable cost, to revert to the February-to-November CAF calendar as had been discussed at board level within the organisation.
The first piece of good news for the PSL was the decision of CAF to move the African Nations Cup finals from January/February to June/July from 2019 onwards.
This will negate the need to have a lengthy mid-season break in the PSL, which this past season stretched from December 22 to February 7.
The league can now re-start early in the New Year, adding a potential four more weekends to the calendar. It will also be welcomed by fans, players and sponsors, who have often bemoaned the stop-start nature of the season every two years.
The second, and perhaps even better news for the PSL, is that African club competitions will now be aligned with the European August-May calendar.
Now, you can debate the merits of this at length, but to the PSL and their clubs, it is a massive win. It means they can adequately plan the campaign, and there should be no more instances of little or no pre-season planning.
Sundowns, for example, have had no proper pre-season since 2015, having played through that period last year on their way to lifting the trophy, and again in this campaign as they reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League again.
Those problems should now be a thing of the past, as should the issues around player registration which have frustrated South African clubs so much in the past.
As the CAF club competitions were not aligned with the transfer windows (for example teams had to register players in December the year before and could not include players purchased in January), this will no longer be an issue.
The PSL has come under heavy criticism in recent years for its scheduling, especially given the recent success of Sundowns and Orlando Pirates in CAF club competitions, but they have now had their problems solved for them to a large degree.
While other leagues across the continent will be trying to work out how to deal with their new issues, South Africa can look forward to more success having finally got the wish of many - to have their domestic calendar aligned with CAF.
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"I was in very high heels and at the Royal Albert Hall, it's like Vegas, everything was so far to get anywhere and my feet had had it so I took my shoes off," Janney told talk show host, James Corden.
"The awful thing is I did meet Kate and William and she was in her heels and pregnant so I felt a bit of a wimp that I was there in my bare feet," Janney said.
"And what did they say to you?" Corden asked.
"I told her that I was in bare feet and ... I told her that she should take her shoes off because she's pregnant. It was an awkward moment."
To make matter worse, Janney broke royal protocol by calling Kate Middleton "honey".
"She was lovely," Janney said about the Duchess of Cambridge.
"They loved I, Tonya and it was a pretty cool thing to meet them."
Corden asked: "Did you test them on whether they'd actually seen it?"
"I chose not to, but it crossed my mind," Janney replied.
The former West Wing star is the odds-on favourite to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at next month's Oscars.


I made Andrew look really scruffy in this strip. In reality, he only had a soul patch for a very brief period of time.
Andrew always thinks people are hitting on me.
Why are TMBG the official nerd band, anyway? It's not like they sing about specifically nerdy subject matter, like, say, Jonathan Coulton. But nerds know and claim them as their own. They give off nerd rays. It's probably the glasses and the flannel and all.
For the record, my favorite TMBG songs are "She's an Angel," "Ana Ng," and "Birdhouse in Your Soul." Although Andrew is not a nerd and generally has much better taste in music than I do (but my tastes are more interesting!), he has been known to declare that "Birdhouse in Your Soul" is a perfect song.
Geez, I'm such a nerd. Still, this strip is kind of noteworthy as the first of the totally unrelated autobio comics I sometimes ran on Sundays over the course of Narbonic. I usually drew these very quickly without pencilling first, which is why they look like this.
The other folks at the concert are my college friends Lisa and Mee-Lise. Lisa is dancing a mazurka.
Andrew says that the TMBG autograph session was the only time he's seen me go completely fangirl on somebody. And we've met a lot of major celebrities over the years. Like the guy who played Lupus in The Bad News Bears.
The King Dapper Combo is an extremely local Ohio junkabilly band to which I was extremely devoted in high school.
Andrew: Is it wrong that when I listen to your They Might Be Giants albums, I can picture the notes coming up in Accordion Hero?
My favorite song of theirs is experimental film. I was introduced to it when Strong Bad did a video with it.
The way I remember it is that Linnell is line-like (i.e. skinny).
I live in Brooklyn and so see TMBG pretty often. I always wanted to ask them if they knew about this comic, but I'm a bit shy about this sort of thing, so I always told myself that people probably asked them about this comic all the time. Has anyone actually mentioned it to them, or should I try to talk to them the next time I see them loading out their equipment at Southpaw?
I love these True-Life Stories! So earnest and endearing.
Also endearing: the verb "gushes".
I actually created a page for "Accordion Hero" on Uncyclopedia, about a month and a half ago… I'm pre-emptively stealing ideas! Hurrah!
Flugelhorn hero is all mine, though.
^_^ Ah, a Schadenfreude Studios fan? Personally, I'm waiting for NachtMusik. I mean, survival horror and karaoke… what a combination!Incidentally, cute dancing dancing poses in the 4th panel. Reminds me of my own dancing.
I rerember watching that Tiny Toons bit, and just really loving the accordion solos. Gotta love accordion solos.
Terry Pratchett FT weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
For some reason, I've never liked TMBG. It's one of the major gaping holes in my Geek Cred.
Believe it or not, I'd never heard TMBG before.
I listened to 'Istanbul' and 'Alphabet of Nations' and they were great. Then I heard 'Dr. Worm' and I was back to wishing I'd never heard them before….
Edward (reynard): thanks for the link! Greatest tiny toons episode ever!
My intro to TMBG was "purple toupe and gold lame" so I was already scarred for life.
Mine was "Birdhouse in Your Soul," which a friend of mine wanted us to karaoke on my birthday despite my only having heard it for the first time earlier that day.
It is now my favorite TMBG song and my signature karaoke tune.
All I can say, is that when I first read through narbonic, I flipped out once I realized the page was plastered all over with TMBG lyrics. And it just shook me up even more, as I realized that one of my favorite webcomics, was by someone who was a fan of one,of my favorite bands.


BITCOIN has tumbled to a two-month low after hackers stole a THIRD of coins from a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange.
Thieves are believed to have swiped £28m of digital currency including Pundi X, Aston and NPER was swiped from Coinrail over the weekend.
The reported hack is the biggest cryptocurrency theft in the country's history.
Coinrail said 30 per cent of its coins had been stolen, with 70 percent of its coins moved to a more secure "cold wallet", which can transfer coins into a platform that is not connected to the internet.
They did not reveal the value of the theft, but Yonhap News cited industry sources who claimed that hackers stole 40billion won - £27.7million - worth of currency.
The announcement has sent Bitcoin plummeting from more than $7,500 (£5,586) before the weekend to $6,780 (£5,050) today - while other digital currencies also recorded large losses.
Coinrail, which was launched in September and is now the seventh largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country by trading volume, has temporarily suspended trading.
The exchange tweeted to confirm the cyber-attack had sent the price of Bitcoin tumbling, and later reported a "cyber intrusion" in a statement on their website.
Coinrail said: "Seventy percent of total coin and token reserves have been confirmed to be safely stored and moved to a cold wallet [not connected to the internet].
"Two-thirds of stolen cryptocurrencies were withdrawn or frozen in partnership with related exchanges and coin companies.
Cryptocurrency popular is extremely popular in South Korea, which is home to one of the busiest virtual coin exchanges, Bithumb.
The South Korean won accounted for more than ten per cent of trades in Bitcoin for much of the second half of 2017, and was the number one currency for transactions in Ethereum until late in the year.


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SC defines 'survivable rights' of civil servants
March 7, 2021 March 12, 2021 The Express Tribune	civil servants, sc, survivable rights
The top court has ruled that legal heirs of a civil servant can pursue his service matters – including matters related to pecuniary and pension benefits as well as reputation – after his death as such matters fall in the category of "survivable rights".
"It is reiterated that other than pecuniary and pensionary benefits that are inure to the benefit of the legal heirs, the right to restore one's reputation is also a survivable right and flows down to the legal heirs to pursue and take to its logical conclusion.
"Any slur on the reputation of a civil servant impinges on his human dignity and weighs equally on the dignity and honour of his family," said an eight-page verdict authored by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah.
Justice Shah was part of a three-judge bench also including Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik and Justice Amin-uddin which heard a case related to the right to sue following the death of a civil servant.
The judgment said the fundamental rights under the Constitution do not only protect and safeguard a citizen but extend beyond his life and protect and safeguard his survivable interests by being equally available to his legal heirs. The court said not all legal rights terminate on death.
A claim by a civil servant for his promotion or better terms and conditions or for reinstatement in service is a survivable claim and passes on in the shape of pecuniary and pension benefits to his legal heirs.
The court said such a claim may arise under the service laws but also enjoys constitutional underpinning.
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"The right to employment and to earn a living free from undue molestation is a property right affecting the estate of the plaintiff," it noted.
The court said such right does not abate upon death. Abatement of appeal on the death of a dead person would impinge upon the property rights of the respondents.
"Also, shutting eyes to their potential property rights would hurt their right to dignity. Human dignity is harmed when individuals and groups are marginalized, ignored, or devalued."
The court noted that under the constitutional scheme, abatement of proceedings on the death of a civil servant, in a case, where the cause of action carries a survivable interest will unduly deprive the dead civil servant and his legal heirs of their constitutional rights to livelihood, property, dignity and fair trial.
"Fundamental right to life including right to livelihood ensures the security of the terms and conditions of service; fundamental right to property ensures security of the pecuniary and pensionary benefits attached to the service; fundamental right to dignity ensures that the reputation of the civil servant is not sullied or discredited through wrongful dismissal, termination or reversion etc.
"[The] fundamental right to fair trial and due process, inter alia, safeguards and protects the survivable interest and ensures continuity of the legal proceedings even after the death of the civil servant, equipping the legal heirs to pursue the claim," it said.
The court said the objective behind establishing service tribunals was to take out the adjudication of disputes related to the terms and conditions of the service of civil servants from the hands of traditional civil courts and place it before specialized tribunals dealing with the issue without being hamstrung by intricate procedural rules of pleadings, trial, admissibility of the evidence and proof of fact.
"In addition to reducing the burden of regular civil courts, a very important purpose was to provide to the civil servants expeditious adjudication in respect of their grievances.
"Notwithstanding that the CPC [Code of Civil Procedure] is not as a whole strictly applicable to the proceedings before the tribunal, the tribunal is bound to follow the basic norms of justice.
"It has been observed by this court that the provisions of the CPC may not apply in proceedings under a special law yet its equitable principles will always be applicable in order to do complete justice between the parties and meet the ends of justice," said the judgment.
(This story has been published from The Express Tribune feed, without modifications to the text)
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Elevated heart rate is a predictive factor of worse outcomes and increased mortality in patients with HFpEF, but this trial found that heart rate reduction with the drug ivabradine does not improve outcomes. The findings do not support the use of ivabradine in these patients. Previous research has found that ivabradine can benefit patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, however.
"Potential explanations for failure are lack of sufficient power since recruitment was interrupted due to difficulties in finding patients, and the idea that heart rate lowering is beneficial in this condition could be wrong if patients have extensive fibrosis and thus no reserve in stroke volume. In that case, changes in cardiac output are totally dependent of heart rate, and reducing heart rate in this context could be detrimental," said Prof. Michel Komajda, lead author of the European Journal of Heart Failure study.