Administrative Law

Administrative Law

Our Law Firm specializes in Administrative Law, offering expert legal advice and representation in matters involving public authorities and government decisions. Our services include challenging or defending administrative actions, judicial review applications, and navigating complex regulatory frameworks. We are committed to protecting our clients’ rights and ensuring fair and lawful administrative processes.

When individuals or businesses deal with the state, they enter the realm of administrative law. Planning permissions, licences, benefits decisions, tax assessments, immigration refusals all are exercises of public power that must be exercised lawfully, fairly, and rationally.

The firm advises on challenges to administrative decisions. Where a public body has acted outside its powers, breached procedural fairness, made an error of law, or reached a decision that is irrational, the courts can intervene. The primary remedy is an application for judicial review to the Supreme Court of Cyprus.

Judicial review is not an appeal on the merits. It is a review of the decision-making process. The court asks whether the decision was lawfully made, not whether it was the rightdecision. This distinction is critical, and the firm advises clients on whether judicial review is available and whether it offers a realistic prospect of success.

Before launching proceedings, the firm explores alternative routes. Representations to the decision-maker. Internal reviews. Appeals to statutory tribunals. These may resolve the matter more quickly and at lower cost than court proceedings.

Where litigation is necessary, the firm handles all stages of judicial review applications. Filing the application. Obtaining leave of the court. Preparing evidence in the form of affidavits. Making submissions on the legal grounds for review. And, if successful, seeking appropriate remedies—quashing orders, mandatory orders, prohibiting orders, or declarations.

Administrative law also encompasses claims for damages against public authorities. Where a public body has acted unlawfully and caused loss, the firm advises on claims for compensation under the Civil Wrongs Law or, in appropriate cases, under EU law principles of state liability.