Nine areas, listed in the order in which foreign clients usually meet them. Each one links to the Italian pages where the decisions and the commentary are set out in full.
Road traffic
Fines, licence points and suspension, speed cameras, parking and restricted-traffic zones, drink-driving. Foreign drivers are an easy target for notices that arrive late, in Italian, and with a deadline already half spent — and the sums grow quickly once enforcement begins.
Much of our work here turns on whether the measuring device was approved but never type-approved, whether the signs were where the law requires, and whether the notice was validly served at all. Decisions in Italian →
Consumers, contracts and savings
Online purchases and the right to withdraw, credit and finance agreements tied to a supply that failed, defective goods, banking contracts, investments sold without proper information, delayed or cancelled flights and ruined holidays.
The thread running through these cases is the imbalance between the parties: sometimes it is written into the contract, more often it lies in what was never explained. Decisions in Italian →
Property, condominium and housing
Buying and selling, building defects, shared costs in a condominio, rights of way and possession, leases and short-term letting.
If you own property in Italy, two things are worth knowing early. The condominium is a legal body with its own rules and its own deadlines for challenging what it decides. And where a building defect is concerned, evidence disperses: the technical survey obtained in time is usually what decides the case. Decisions in Italian →
Personal injury and medical liability
Road accidents, accidents at work, and harm caused in hospital or by a medical practitioner.
Compensation in Italy is not an accounting exercise: the fight is normally about causation — whether the harm can be traced to the act complained of — and about what counts as proof of it. These are the cases where we work alongside technical consultants from the first day. Decisions in Italian →
Employment, welfare and disability
Dismissal and suspension, harassment at work, unpaid entitlements and severance, disability benefits and attendance allowance refused or withdrawn.
Welfare cases have their own procedure and their own short deadlines, and the public body on the other side is not always a willing opponent. This is also where the firm's psychological consultancy is of practical use, in cases of workplace harm. Decisions in Italian →
Criminal defence
From the first notice that an investigation exists through to trial, including the written submissions that can end a prosecution before it begins.
Italian criminal procedure gives the defence moments that are easy to miss and impossible to recover — the reply to the notice concluding the investigation is one of them. For a foreign national there is a further layer: the effect of a criminal proceeding on residence and on the right to remain. Decisions in Italian →
Tax
Assessments, demands, refunds refused, disputes with the Revenue Agency and with collection agents.
Italian tax litigation rests heavily on presumptions — the authority assumes, and the taxpayer disproves. Much of the work consists in establishing where that reversal of the burden of proof stops, and in holding the administration to its own duty of good faith. Decisions in Italian →
Family
Separation and divorce by consent or through the courts, arrangements for children, the family home, and the enforcement of maintenance.
Where one spouse is not Italian, or the family has moved between countries, the first question is usually which court has jurisdiction and which law applies — and the answer shapes everything that follows. Decisions in Italian →
Business, professions and competition
Dealings between businesses, with professionals and with public bodies: unfair competition, professional liability and insurance, sub-contracting on public works, agency and distribution.
This is the ordinary commercial law of small and medium businesses, not corporate finance. Decisions in Italian →