Administrative Law Attorney in Padua and Venice

Administrative law governs the relationship between the citizen or business and the public administration, and in particular the measures by which a public body authorises, prohibits, imposes or denies something. It exists to reconcile two often conflicting needs: the public interest that the administration must pursue and the rights of the private party affected by that action. For this reason the law imposes duties of legality, impartiality and sound administration on public bodies, and provides remedies when those duties are breached.

The problems falling within this area are concrete and everyday: a refused building permit, a demolition order, exclusion from a public competition or a tender, a Highway Code fine, the refusal of a residence permit, a student’s non-promotion. These are always measures that directly affect the life or business of the recipient. The legislative framework consists of the Law on Administrative Procedure (Law 241/1990), which sets out how the administration must act, and the Code of Administrative Procedure (Legislative Decree 104/2010), which governs proceedings before the administrative courts.

The principal remedy against an unlawful measure is an appeal to the TAR, to be filed within sixty days of notification or knowledge of the measure, almost always accompanied by an application for interim relief to suspend its effects before they become irreversible. Alongside the judicial route, administrative remedies remain available, from review by the authority itself to hierarchical appeal and extraordinary appeal to the Head of State. The short time limit and the need to choose the correct route are the reason this area requires technical intervention from the very first hours.

The lawyer intervenes at two points. During the administrative procedure, the lawyer engages with the administration to prevent the measure from being adopted unlawfully; at the litigation stage, the lawyer challenges it and seeks its annulment. The Firm assists individuals and businesses in Padua and Venice, from the preliminary examination of the measure and the time limits through to the final decision, and the lawyer’s background and experience in this field can be found on the dedicated page.