International Protection of Human Rights

Pietrangeli Law Firm has been dealing for years with applications to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg both on behalf of natural persons and on behalf of legal persons or sole proprietorships.

On behalf of the applicants who have won their case in the European Court of Human Rights, we also handles issues relating to the Italian State’s obligation to compensate, in particular the recovery of sums due as just satisfaction in accordance with Article 41 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and tax issues arising from the enforcement of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

Finally, we also provides legal advice and assistance in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings, with a view to the application by Italian courts of the European Convention on Human Rights as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

As regards the experience acquired over the years, it is should be noted that:

➢ The cases we have dealt with over the years in the European Court of Human Rights concern, inter alia, the confiscation and transfer of land, free of charge, to the municipality, credit rights, expropriation, the right to recognition of foreign judgments, tax matters.

➢ Francesca Pietrangeli was a member of the defence team in the well-known case Sud Fondi S.r.l. and Others v. Italy, so-called “Punta Perotti” case (European Court of Human Rights, judgment of 20 January 2009 and European Court of Human Rights, judgment of 10 May 2012). In this case, concerning the confiscation owing to unlawful site development ordered by criminal courts in relation to land and buildings situated on the seafront of Bari, even though the applicants had been acquitted due to blameless ignorance of law, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Italy for violation of Article 7 of the Convention, enshrining the principle of legality in criminal matters, and Article 1 para. 1 of Protocol No. 1, protecting the right to property.