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Public law

State liability, mayoral liability, abuse of power submission, administrative submission, contesting ministerial or municipal by-laws, request for cancellation of decrees, the priority preliminary ruling on the issue of constitutionality, expropriation, town planning… Our lawyers appear before all administrative jurisdictions, and are renowned for their expertise in public law, as well as their mastery of administrative and civil service law.

Public law

What is a public law lawyer?

A public law lawyer is a lawyer who specializes in relations between private individuals and public authorities, or relations between public entities. The terms “public law lawyer”, “publicist law lawyer” and “administrative law lawyer” are equivalent.

The public law lawyer is a legal advisor dedicated to private individuals or legal entities.

TEAMS

Our lawyers

A public law lawyer represents his clients in their relations with all public administrations. These include government departments and local authorities.

The French legal system divides jurisdiction between two distinct orders of court: the judicial order and the administrative order (public law). The latter is competent to recognize the decisions or actions of public bodies. Public bodies are distinguished from private individuals by the exercise of their “prerogatives of public authority”. Administrative jurisdictions contain procedural particularities that distinguish them from judicial jurisdictions.
In the event of a dispute, a public law lawyer will endeavor to reach an amicable settlement.

If the dispute cannot be settled through conciliation, the firm advises and represents its clients before the administrative courts of general jurisdiction (tribunaux administratifs, cours administratives d’appel) and specialized administrative courts (disciplinary sections of professional orders, tribunal interrégional de la tarification sanitaire et sociale, etc.).
A public law attorney also assists local authorities and public establishments with their organizational and management issues: administrative police, intercommunality, public and private domains, local public finance.

The different areas of public law:

The firm is active in all areas of public law:

  • Administrative law: governing the bodies responsible for carrying out the various state interventions (e.g. public services law and administrative liability, general administrative law);
  • Administrative contracts: conclusion, performance and litigation of administrative contracts (public procurement contracts, partnership contracts, public service delegations, etc.);
  • Civil service: rights of tenured and non-tenured civil servants;
  • Local authority law: intercommunality, economic development and administrative policing;
  • Public property law: property belonging to the public domain;
  • Administrative litigation: informal appeals, hierarchical appeals, appeals on grounds of ultra vires and compensation before administrative courts and administrative courts of appeal;
  • Public business law: relations between the administration and economic operators;
  • Foreign nationals and nationality law: expulsion and acquisition of French nationality, obtaining residence permits;
  • Education law: examination and competitive examination litigation;
  • Environmental law: nature protection and industrial environment.

Service

Legal support and technical expertise

The firm’s recognized expertise in public litigation enables it to provide its clients with support, whether as plaintiff or defendant, in all matters relating to the various areas of public law. The law firm ensures optimum representation in litigation before the administrative courts.

The firm’s work begins with a detailed analysis of the case and the client’s objectives. This analysis enables us to propose an approach tailored to our clients’ issues, and to carry out their project(s) with complete legal certainty.

Professional support from an experienced lawyer is all the more relevant and necessary now that proceedings before the administrative courts have become increasingly complex.

The firm can help you choose and define the best possible litigation strategy.

Once this choice has been made, it will be implemented by one of the firm’s lawyers during proceedings on the merits and/or in the event of an appeal. By way of example, the firm acts on behalf of public bodies and economic operators in matters of public contract law, whether to assist them during procurement procedures or to defend them in the event of disputes relating to their performance.

The firm also assists economic operators in their efforts to obtain recognition and compensation for losses caused by the actions and decisions of public authorities.

Who can benefit from public law support and defense?

A public law lawyer is there to defend the interests of:

  • Public and semi-public bodies: State, regions, departments, municipalities, public establishments, schools, hospitals, semi-public companies, etc;
  • Their service providers and partners: design offices, private players in the real estate sector (investors, developers, public contracting authorities, prime contractors, construction companies, etc.), industrial groups, public service delegates, associations, etc.

They trusted us

Brilliant team. It’s a pleasure to work with a competent, efficient and reliable law firm. Cases are taken VERY seriously. Jonathan and his associates are extremely efficient. I highly recommend them.

Alexandre Chombeau

Maitre Jonathan Bellaiche, the firm’s founder, is more than a lawyer, he’s a strategist, a chess player with a long-term vision who anticipates everything.

Thanks to him and his team.

Yanis Abbas

Responsiveness, a sense of service, determination and mastery of the subject… proven on several projects.

François T.

A golden law firm! Maître Zahedi, Maître Bellaiche and all the firm’s associates make up a formidable team of efficiency, integrity, professionalism and responsiveness. It’s great to be able to count on professionals who are committed and exemplary, adapting to often tight deadlines. With this law firm you can sleep soundly and peacefully, I fully recommend it and would like to thank Maître Zahedi once again for his efficiency and exemplary handling of our case.

Cécile LEDUC

Very warm welcome. A very straightforward professional. Very attentive and selfless. Very efficient. Many thanks.

Philippe J.

Magnificent firm 100% success on my procedures

Alex A.

The Goldwin firm,
met my expectations in more than just a professional way, we’re talking human here. Not paternalistic, the firm was able to answer questions, without fault, in an honest way, and this without prejudice, by principle of the laws, by principle simply. Thank you for everything.

Aby Turpin
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