We assist foreigners involved in criminal proceedings in Italy, as indeed Italians citizens abroad, coordinating defence pleadings with the support of local professionals and the Italian diplomatic and consular network, and we also participate personally in hearings held before foreign courts.
Ever since it was founded, the Firm has focused on the international aspects of criminal law.Today it is a flagship for excellence in Italy in the field of international criminal law and extradition. We provide ongoing assistance in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, operating in the sector of legal assistance in criminal matters, in accordance with the European and international Conventions currently in force.
In over thirty-five years, we have acquired considerable experience in countless extradition proceedings to and from Italy, involving European Union and non-EU countries, and also in European arrest warrant proceedings. We have specific, in-depth expertise in interpreting and applying the European Convention on Extradition and the bilateral conventions that exist between Italy and other countries. Thanks to our very high level of specialisation in this field, we have gained the trust of foreign embassies in Italy and Italian embassies abroad, and that of governments of important foreign countries, which have entrusted us with defending their interests before the Italian judicial authorities in extradition trials, international letters rogatory, mutual assistance in criminal matters, the transfer of convicted persons.
The Firm has also acquired particular expertise in preparing and debating claims before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, involving the Italian Republic and also other countries that have adhered to the Convention. These claims cover such matters as the unreasonable duration of criminal proceedings and the lack of fairness of such proceedings; Italian procedural institutions in contrast with the Convention; the quality of conditions of detention; the legitimacy of property confiscation measures envisaged by ordinary and antimafia legislation; and urgent procedures covering the ban on refoulement.
We assist foreigners involved in criminal proceedings in Italy, as indeed Italians citizens abroad, coordinating defence pleadings with the support of local professionals and the Italian diplomatic and consular network, and we also participate personally in hearings held before foreign courts. Thanks to the Firm’s structure and a network of foreign law firms highly specialised in the field, we are in a position to provide legal assistance anywhere in the world to persons awaiting extradition to Italy, to persons who have asked to be transferred to serve their sentence in Italy, or to persons involved in legal proceedings or whose personal freedom is in any way restricted.