Areas of Legal Work
The office’s areas of work are listed below. Each matter is assessed on its own facts and under the applicable legislation.
- Cases within the jurisdiction of the High Criminal Court
- Cases within the jurisdiction of the Criminal Court of First Instance
- Objections to arrest, police custody, seizure and similar procedural measures
- Objections to pre-trial detention and other judicial supervision orders
- Defence of suspects during an investigation
- Defence of accused persons at trial
- Representation of victims, complainants and intervening parties
- Appeal or cassation applications
- Applications for cassation in the interest of law or retrial
- Objections under Articles 308 and 308-A of the Criminal Procedure Code
- Calculation of the period to be served in custody
- Objections to a sentence calculation document (müddetname)
- Compensation claims arising from workplace accidents
- Declaratory claims in employment matters
- Notice of termination by the employer for just cause
- Notice of termination by the employee for just cause
- Applications for mandatory or voluntary mediation
- Employee claims for severance pay, notice pay and overtime pay
- Residence permit applications
- Work permit applications
- Applications to extend a work permit
- Citizenship applications
- Family residence permit applications
- Compensation claims arising from road traffic accidents
- Contractual damages claims
- Tort claims
- Compensation claims connected with the annulment of an administrative act
- Medical malpractice claims
- Compensation claims brought alongside divorce proceedings
- Compensation for infringement of intellectual or industrial property rights, including trademarks, patents and utility models
- Changes of name or surname and correction of civil registry records
- Guardianship proceedings and appointment of a guardian
- Correction of a person’s recorded age
- Applications for a declaration of absence
- Legal proceedings for gender reassignment
- Legal assistance with establishing associations, foundations, trade unions, cooperatives and other legal entities
- Divorce by mutual consent
- Preparation of a divorce settlement agreement
- Contested divorce: maintenance, division of matrimonial property, return of jewellery, pecuniary and non-pecuniary compensation, and custody
- Applications to increase maintenance
- Proceedings to remove parental custody
- Applications to change custody arrangements
- Applications for protective orders against a spouse
- Parentage proceedings, including establishment, acknowledgement and denial of paternity
- Claims concerning sham transactions by a deceased person intended to deprive heirs of inheritance (muris muvazaası)
- Preparation of wills and appointment of heirs
- Claims to restore an heir’s reserved share (tenkis)
- Cancellation and registration of title in inheritance disputes
- Renunciation of inheritance
- Applications for the opening of a will
- Termination of co-ownership arising from inheritance
- Identification, administration and distribution of an estate
- Cancellation and registration of title to immovable property
- Prevention of unlawful interference with property and compensation for unauthorised use (ecrimisil)
- Right-of-way claims
- Procedures and claims for exercising pre-emption rights
- Rent determination and tenant eviction proceedings
- Termination of co-ownership
- Establishment of a mortgage
- Pledge and other security-right disputes
- Disputes concerning condominium ownership
- Property-related declaratory proceedings, including assessment of damage
- Expropriation proceedings
- Full-remedy actions for compensation in administrative law
- Actions to annul administrative acts
- Proceedings concerning lost registered instruments
- Proceedings concerning lost instruments payable to order
- Proceedings concerning lost bearer instruments
- Unjust enrichment claims involving bills of exchange
- Third-party claims against a shareholder’s liquidation share or dividend entitlement
- Claims for payment or compensation relating to shares in transferred companies
- Claims arising from non-payment of exit compensation in company mergers
- Claims arising from payment to creditors instead of security in company mergers
- Claims arising from payment instead of security in company divisions
- Claims against persons involved in mergers, divisions or changes of company form for damage negligently caused to companies, shareholders or creditors
- Claims against a controlling company for unlawful exercise of control
- Compensation claims against a controlling company and members of its board
- Claims and compensation proceedings involving joint-stock companies, limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships and other partnerships
- Concordat proceedings
- Recovery and enforcement of debts arising from commercial transactions
- Legal advice for commercial enterprises
- Ordinary enforcement proceedings by attachment
- Delivery of movable property, or vacation or delivery of immovable property
- Enforcement of judgments requiring payment or the provision of security
- Realisation of a mortgage
- Judgment-based enforcement by realisation of a pledge over movable property
- Realisation of a pledge over movable property
- Procedures concerning the handover of a child or contact with a child
- Concordat proceedings
- Enforcement of negotiable instruments, including cheques, promissory notes and bills of exchange