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LEGAL ADVICE

Legal advice on urban planning and public law

Olivier Le Bot provides legal advice in his areas of expertise, including urban planning law, administrative litigation and general public law.


This work can take various forms.

 

 

In a litigation context, it takes the form of drafting or assisting in the writing of legal pleadings: applications, defence pleadings, intervention pleadings, QPC pleadings and, before the Constitutional Council, external contributions and voluntary interventions.

 

 

Outside the context of litigation, advice takes the form of legal analyses and memoranda of varying length. They consist of a reasoned opinion on a legal point which raises a particular difficulty or is new. They may also result in a complete and in-depth analysis of a legal situation or act.

 

 

These advisory services are aimed at law firms and other legal professions, companies (in particular property developers), public authorities, individuals and associations.

 

 

This activity is complemented by professional training and mediation services.

Examples

Legal advice​

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  • Appraisal of planning documents or planning projects.

  • Assistance with the design and implementation of a project or property development.

  • What is the purpose of co-living spaces?

  • Can I build on my land?

  • What rules apply to a particular property development?

  • Has planning permission been tacitly granted?

  • What options are there for dividing a plot of land?

  • How long is planning permission valid, taking into account any appeals lodged against it?

  • What are the conditions under which, and the extent to which, a public authority may be held liable for a fault of omission?

  • Under what conditions can an amendment to a public contract be made without a new competitive tendering procedure?

  • What legal tools can the authority responsible for planning permission use to achieve the desired result?

Litigation assistance

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  • Defence of a local urban development plan.

  • Appeal against refusal of building permission.

  • Defence of a decision not to grant planning permission.

  • Appeal against a building permit.

  • Challenging a town planning document.

  • Definition of a litigation strategy.

  • Voluntary intervention.

  • QPC brief.

  • ECHR action.

  • Action for damages.

  • Summary proceedings (interim suspension, interim release, interim measures, interim statement of facts, interim expert appraisal, interim provision, special interim measures).

  • Tax litigation (TEOM, town planning contributions, etc.).

  • Pay parking litigation commission.

  • Economic litigation: state aid, competition, interventionism.

  • Litigation relating to the installation of wind turbines, relay antennas or solar farms (photovoltaic panels).

  • Conciliation, mediation, arbitration.

Professional training

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  • Customised training tailored to your needs.

    Travel to your premises or distance learning.

    Checking skills acquisition.

Mediation​

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  • Amicable dispute resolution.

  • Listening and dialogue, seeking compromise.

  • Fair and legally founded solution.

  • Competence, diligence, confidentiality and impartiality.

Areas

Par le port

Urban planning law

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  • Planning permission (planning permission, prior declaration, planning permission, construction, works, alterations, change of use)

    Urban planning documents (PLU, carte communale, SCOT)

  • National planning rules

  • Subdivision of land

  • Land development (ZAC, ZAD, GOU, OIN)

  • Right of preemption, right of priority, relinquishment

    Taxation, planning contributions, taxe d'aménagement (development tax)

    Commercial urban planning

  • Adaptation to retreating coastline, zero net artificialisation (ZAN)

  • Solar panels, photovoltaic fields, wind turbines

  • Campings

  • Contentious urban planning (administrative, civil and criminal)

Law

Litigation

 

  • Administrative proceedings

  • Judicial review

  • Full legal recourse

  • Contractual remedies

  • Actions for damages

  • Actions for interpretation

  • Class actions

  • Interim relief and urgent proceedings

  • Special administrative courts

  • Commission du contentieux du stationnement payant

  • Alternative dispute resolution

  • Administrative appeals, mediation, arbitration

  • Enforcement of decisions

  • Constitutional litigation

  • Preventing litigation

  • Litigation strategy

Examen de l'accord juridique

General public law

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  • Constitutional law: organisation of public authorities, constitutional litigation (QPC, voluntary intervention, external contribution)

  • Public economic law: state aid, competition, privatisation, nationalisation, professional bodies, products, etc.

  • Administrative law: acts, property, contracts, liability, civil service, local authorities

  • Fundamental rights: ECHR, summary proceedings

  • Environmental law: renewable energies (solar, wind), ICPE

  • Animal law

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