Italian criminal defence for English speakers
If you have been arrested, investigated or named in a warrant in Italy and you do not speak Italian, this section explains what is happening and what you can do about it. You do not need to be in Italy to instruct us.
Arrest and the first 48 hours
- Arrested at italian airport
- Arrested in italy what to do
- Arrested on holiday italy
- Bail italy foreign national
- Foreign prisoners italy assistance
- Police custody italy rights
- Pre trial detention italy
- Urgent lawyer italy 24h
- Visiting a detainee italian prison
Acting for someone else
- Instructing an italian criminal lawyer as foreign counsel
- Italian criminal procedure for common law lawyers
- My relative faces extradition or an eaw
- My relative has been arrested in italy
- Our director is under investigation in italy
- Our employee has been arrested in italy
By nationality
- Australian arrested in italy
- Canadian arrested in italy
- Uk citizen arrested in italy
- Us citizen arrested in italy
European Arrest Warrant
- Challenge european arrest warrant
- Eaw surrender hearing italy
- Eaw vs extradition difference
- European arrest warrant italy
Extradition
- Extradition from italy
- Extradition hearing italy
- Extradition italy to uk
- Extradition italy to usa
- Fight extradition italy
Interpol notices
- Arrested on interpol notice italy
- Interpol diffusion vs red notice
- Interpol red notice italy
- Interpol wanted list check
- Remove interpol red notice
Dealing with the police
- Fingerprints dna and identification italy
- Getting seized property back italy
- Phone and device seizure italy
- Police searches in italy your rights
- Rights when questioned by italian police
Running a case from abroad
- Am i under investigation in italy
- Can i leave italy during a criminal case
- Hiring an italian lawyer from abroad
- How long can police investigate italy
- How long does an italian criminal case take
- Indagato vs imputato explained
How the system works
- Jury trials in italy corte dassise
- Presumption of innocence and burden of proof italy
- Tried twice for the same offence italy
Ways a case can end without conviction
- Case dismissal archiviazione italy
- Oblazione paying to close a case italy
- Particolare tenuita del fatto italy
- Settling with the victim italy
- Withdrawing a criminal complaint italy
Practical consequences
- Compensation for wrongful detention italy
- Driving licence suspension for foreign drivers italy
- Italian case and your us or uk visa
- Who gets told about your italian case
- Working in italy while under investigation
How Italian law differs from the US and the UK
- How italian criminal procedure differs from us and uk
- Italian legal terms that mislead english speakers
Drug charges
Driving charges
Violence charges
Sexual offence charges
Theft and property charges
Business and financial crime
- Bribery corruption italy
- Cybercrime crypto italy
- Embezzlement italy
- Extortion italy
- Fraud charges italy
- Money laundering italy
- Tax fraud italy foreign business
- White collar crime italy
Offences that affect residents
- Carrying a knife or weapon offences italy
- Defamation charges italy
- Driving without a valid italian licence
- False statements to italian authorities
- Noise and neighbour disputes criminal italy
- Resisting or insulting a public official italy
- Stalking charges italy
- Threats and coercion charges italy
Family and relationships
- Domestic abuse allegations and removal from the family home
- Failure to pay maintenance italy
- False allegations during a separation italy
- Police warnings and protective orders italy
- Taking your child abroad without consent italy
Work, tax and assets
- Director of an italian company personal criminal exposure
- Employing staff off the books italy
- Failure to file an italian tax return
- Italian tax residency investigation individuals
- Practising a regulated profession without qualification italy
- Undeclared foreign accounts italy
Procedure and your rights
- Corte di cassazione final appeal
- Criminal appeal italy
- Criminal lawyer fees italy
- Italian criminal trial process
- Patteggiamento plea bargain italy
- Public defender vs private lawyer italy
- Reduce a prison sentence italy
Court documents and notifications
- Decreto penale di condanna explained
- Electing a domicile for service italy
- How italian court papers reach you abroad
- Messa alla prova probation italy
- Right to an interpreter italian criminal case
- Summoned by the police invito a comparire
- Suspended sentence italy
- Time limits prescrizione italy
- Trial in absentia italy
- What is an avviso di garanzia
How sentences are calculated
- Aggravating and mitigating circumstances italy
- Alternatives to prison italy
- Fines and pecuniary penalties italy
- How italian criminal sentences are calculated
- Multiple offences continuazione italy
- Recidivism and sentence increase italy
- Rito abbreviato one third reduction
- Serving an italian sentence in your home country
Sentences: drug offences
- Cannabis offences sentence italy
- Drug association sentence italy
- Drug trafficking sentence italy
- Small scale dealing sentence italy
Sentences: laundering and handling
Sentences: business and financial offences
- Bankruptcy offences sentence italy
- Bribery and corruption sentence italy
- Corporate liability 231 sanctions
- Corporate offences sentence italy
- Fraud sentence italy
- Tax offences sentences italy
Sentences: offences against the person
- Assault and bodily harm sentence italy
- Homicide sentence italy
- Sexual offences sentence italy
- Stalking and mistreatment sentence italy
Sentences: property offences
Sentences: driving offences
Sentences: other offences
How long you can be held
- Detention pending extradition italy
- How long detained under an eaw italy
- Maximum pre trial detention terms italy
Your right to stay in Italy
- Appealing an expulsion order italy
- Criminal conviction and your italian residence permit
- Criminal proceedings and italian citizenship application
- Eu citizens removal from italy
- Eu long term residence permit and criminal record
- Expulsion after criminal conviction italy
- Renewing a permesso while under investigation
Criminal record and rehabilitation
- Does an italian conviction appear abroad
- Italian criminal record certificate
- Keeping a conviction off your certificate non menzione
- Rehabilitation clearing an italian conviction
If you are the victim
- Joining an italian criminal trial as a civil party
- Legal aid for foreign residents italy
- Reporting a crime in italy denuncia or querela
- State compensation for victims of violent crime italy
- Victim of fraud in italy
Medical negligence claims
- Criminal liability of doctors italy
- How personal injury damages are calculated italy
- How to claim for medical negligence italy
- Medical malpractice compensation italy
- Surgical error and birth injury claims italy
- Time limits medical negligence claim italy
By city
- English speaking criminal lawyer amalfi coast
- English speaking criminal lawyer bari
- English speaking criminal lawyer bologna
- English speaking criminal lawyer catania
- English speaking criminal lawyer fiumicino
- English speaking criminal lawyer florence
- English speaking criminal lawyer genoa
- English speaking criminal lawyer italy
- English speaking criminal lawyer lake como
- English speaking criminal lawyer malpensa
- English speaking criminal lawyer milan
- English speaking criminal lawyer naples
- English speaking criminal lawyer palermo
- English speaking criminal lawyer pisa
- English speaking criminal lawyer rome
- English speaking criminal lawyer sardinia
- English speaking criminal lawyer sicily
- English speaking criminal lawyer turin
- English speaking criminal lawyer tuscany
- English speaking criminal lawyer venice
- English speaking criminal lawyer verona