Course : Administrative litigation, improving your practices

Administrative litigation, improving your practices

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This course presents the operating rules of the various administrative appeals/applications. It will show you how to draft or review a request and make effective use of administrative litigation rules.


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Practical course in person or remote class

Ref. AMG
Price : 1410 € E.T.
  2d - 14h00




This course presents the operating rules of the various administrative appeals/applications. It will show you how to draft or review a request and make effective use of administrative litigation rules.

Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
  • Analyse the steps of an administrative procedure
  • Examine the various administrative appeals
  • Recognise the rules governing the admissibility of applications
  • Draft a statement of defence

Intended audience
People working in legal and litigation departments. Legal assistants and secretaries. Any person required to monitor disputes before the various administrative courts.

Prerequisites
No specific knowledge.

Course schedule

The administrative courts

  • The administrative tribunals and administrative courts of appeal.
  • The Council of State.
  • Special jurisdictions.
  • Available remedies.
Hands-on work
Study and analysis of the stages of the different administrative procedures.

The different administrative appeals/applications

  • Applications for judicial review ("recours pour excès de pouvoir").
  • Administrative-law actions ("recours de pleine juridiction ou de plein contentieux").
  • The specific case of administrative offences.
  • Expeditious procedures.
Hands-on work
Study of applications for judicial review ("recours pour excès de pouvoir") and administrative-law actions.

The rules concerning the referral to the administrative judge

  • Identify the competent judge.
  • Recognise the rules governing the admissibility of applications (deadlines, grounds and legal standing).
  • Joinder of cases and joinder of parties.
  • Cases where there is no need to adjudicate.
Hands-on work
Drafting of a request (identify the grounds of law to be raised).

The enforcement of administrative court decisions

  • The binding effect of judgements and enforcement.
  • Penalty payments and orders.

Understanding the rules of admissibility of the statement of defence

  • The validity of the representation of the legal person.
  • Compliance with deadlines.

Examining the request in order to better respond

  • Verify the admissibility of the appeal and its conclusions.
  • Challenge the legal arguments raised in the application.
  • Identify the documents to be produced.
Hands-on work
How to present and draft a statement of defence before an administrative court

Using litigation rules effectively

  • Substitution of grounds.
  • Defence: failure to obtain a pre-action decision
  • Defence: four-year limitation period
  • Invoking a cause that exonerates one's responsibility.
  • The counterclaim and warranty claim.
Hands-on work
Drafting a statement of defence in view of the legal and precedential arguments presented.


Practical details
Teaching methods;
This course integrates France's latest regulations, in particular the "JADE Decree" of 2 November 2016, and the Law of 18 November 2016 on the modernisation of justice in the 21st century.

Dates and locations
Select your location or opt for the remote class then choose your date.
Remote class