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Administrative & Public Law
Appeals and defence in dealings with public authorities: penalties, State liability, planning law and judicial review.
Formed grain by grain over millions of years, limestone represents what Santana Lorenzo Abogados offers in dealings with public authorities: experience.
“With public authorities, the deadline is the first battle.”
Administrative procedures have short, strict deadlines: what is not argued in time cannot be argued later. That is why the matter must be studied the day the notice arrives, not the following week. We defend companies and private individuals against penalties, State liability proceedings, planning decisions and rulings of any public authority, both before the authority itself and before the administrative courts.
Many of these matters have a second side: the administrative penalty that may turn into criminal proceedings, the inspection that ends in a derived liability claim, the licence on which a commercial transaction depends. As a litigation boutique, we handle them with that complete view and with the same team.
Penalty proceedings
Submissions, appeals and defence at every stage, including the boundary with criminal proceedings.
State liability
Claims for damage caused by the operation of public services.
Planning and licensing
Appeals against refusals, restoration orders and planning enforcement proceedings.
Public procurement and grants
Challenges to contract awards and defence in grant recovery proceedings.
Judicial review
Administrative courts, High Courts of Justice, National High Court and Supreme Court.
How we work
We calculate the deadline the same day and set out the strategy in writing: what to challenge, before whom and with what evidence. If it is advisable to seek a stay of the decision, we ask for it in the very first submission. And we keep the administrative and judicial stages consistent, because the file built today is the one the court will see tomorrow.