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  ►   Litigation & Non Litigation Services

 

   
Æ  Litigation representation is possible in the: - Superior Courts (Civil/Criminal)*

  - Magistrates' Courts (Civil/Criminal);
  - Small Claims Tribunal;
  - Rent Regulation Board, Agricultural;
  - Leases Board;
  Board of Special Commissioners;
 

- Land Arbitration Tribunal; 

 
 

- Planning Appeals Board;

 

- Planning Authority: Development Control Commission/Main Board;

 

- Social Services Appeals (Umpire).

 

 

* The Superior Courts of malta consist of: The Civil Court First Hall; The Civil Court Second Hall; The Court of Appeal (Civil Jurisdiction) ; the Criminal Court; the Court of Criminal Appeal; the Constitutional Court.

 

 

Æ Non Litigation representation is available before the 'Second Hall' (for civil, non-litigation Applications e.g.. for provisional maintenance, opening of successions, opening of secret wills, emancipation of minors, interdiction or incapacitation of persons of unsound mind, curatorship of minors, absentees or interdicted/incapacitated persons; authorisation to proceed to separation proceedings in litigation court, etc.)

 

 

  ►   Contract Law & Tort

 

Æ Contract Law: Issues referring to Contracts in general and their drafting, interpretation or execution; Property sales; emphyteutical grants,; contracts of personal separation between spouses (legal advice, drafting, attendance);  and/or leases of immovable property (long and short-lets), agricultural leases, advice re insurance policies, contracts of service or employment contracts, car-hire agreements, other agreements or contractual undertakings/obligations, whether personal or real.

 

Æ Torts & Quasi Torts: Personal injury or damage to property cases, e.g. traffic matters; other claims for damages, e.g. commercial or civil damages; private or public nuisance; generally any contraventions prosecutable under the Criminal Code or the Code of Police Laws.

 

 

  ►    Administrative Law

 

Representation before all government departments, agencies or para-statal organisations, re - Planning Matters, - Pensions  & Social Security claims, - Duty on Documents questions, - Police Regulations and their enforcement, - - Local Council matters.

 

 

  ►    Personal Law & Family Law

 

Æ Acts of: Birth, marriage, death, and their obtaining or correction; questions of civil status, gender recognition issues, marriages and the

rights and duties of spouses, parents, children.

 

Æ Filiation issues: i.e. recognition of children by natural parents; management of DNA investigations; child custody and abduction matters.

 

Æ Inheritance matters: searches for, and drafting of wills, seeking of legitims, partition of estates and opening of successions.

 

Æ Separation issues i.e. questions regarding maintenance of spouses and children, custody, etc.

 

Advice and/or Court Procedures related thereto is available

 

 

  ►    Banking Matters

 

Negotiation of personal or small business Bank loans and related matters.

 

 

  ►    International Law

 

Æ Issues of Conflict of Laws: i.e. the applicable legal implications of foreign contracts, commercial deals overseas and contractual liabilities to or of persons or states, and any relative civil or commercial claims from foreign residents or businesses against local persons or traders...and vice-versa.

 

Æ Interpretation and/ or execution of local or foreign contracts or undertakings when parties reside in different countries.

 

Æ Enforcement of Foreign Judgments - Advice or Action

 

Advice and/or Court representation is available in any of the above fields