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 in Italy
- Bail Italy foreign national
- Foreign prisoners Italy assistance
- Police custody Italy rights
- Pre trial detention in 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 European Arrest Warrant
- 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
- The UK citizen arrested in Italy
- The US citizen arrested in Italy
European Arrest Warrant
- Challenge european arrest warrant
- European Arrest Warrant surrender hearing in Italy
- European Arrest Warrant vs extradition difference
- European arrest warrant in Italy
Extradition
- Extradition from Italy
- Extradition hearing in Italy
- Extradition Italy to the UK
- Extradition Italy to the USA
- Fight extradition in Italy
Interpol notices
- Arrested on Interpol notice in Italy
- Interpol diffusion vs red notice
- Interpol red notice in Italy
- Interpol wanted list check
- Remove Interpol red notice
Dealing with the police
- Fingerprints DNA and identification in Italy
- Getting seized property back in Italy
- Phone and device seizure in 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 in 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 in Italy
- Tried twice for the same offence in Italy
Ways a case can end without conviction
- Case dismissal archiviazione in Italy
- Oblazione paying to close a case Italy
- Particolare tenuita del fatto in Italy
- Settling with the victim in Italy
- Withdrawing a criminal complaint in Italy
Practical consequences
- Compensation for wrongful detention in Italy
- Driving licence suspension for foreign drivers in Italy
- Italian case and your the US or the 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 the US and the UK
- Italian legal terms that mislead english speakers
Drug charges
- Drug arrest in Italy
- Drug possession in Italy
- Drug smuggling in Italy
- Drug trafficking charges in Italy
Driving charges
- Breathalyzer refusal in Italy
- Drink driving Italy foreign driver
- Fatal road accident in Italy
- Hit and run in Italy
Violence charges
Sexual offence charges
Theft and property charges
- Criminal damage in Italy
- Receiving stolen goods in Italy
- Robbery burglary in Italy
- Theft charges in Italy
Business and financial crime
- Bribery corruption in Italy
- Cybercrime crypto in Italy
- Embezzlement in Italy
- Extortion in Italy
- Fraud charges in Italy
- Money laundering in Italy
- Tax fraud Italy foreign business
- White collar crime in Italy
Offences that affect residents
- Carrying a knife or weapon offences in Italy
- Defamation charges in Italy
- Driving without a valid Italian licence
- False statements to Italian authorities
- Noise and neighbour disputes criminal in Italy
- Resisting or insulting a public official in Italy
- Stalking charges in Italy
- Threats and coercion charges in Italy
Family and relationships
- Domestic abuse allegations and removal from the family home
- Failure to pay maintenance Italy
- False allegations during a separation in Italy
- Police warnings and protective orders in 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 in Italy
- Failure to file an Italian tax return
- Italian tax residency investigation individuals
- Practising a regulated profession without qualification in Italy
- Undeclared foreign accounts in Italy
Procedure and your rights
- Corte di cassazione final appeal
- Criminal appeal in Italy
- Criminal lawyer fees in Italy
- Italian criminal trial process
- Patteggiamento plea bargain in Italy
- Public defender vs private lawyer in Italy
- Reduce a prison sentence in Italy
Court documents and notifications
- Decreto penale di condanna explained
- Electing a domicile for service in Italy
- How Italian court papers reach you abroad
- Messa alla prova probation in Italy
- Right to an interpreter Italian criminal case
- Summoned by the police invito a comparire
- Suspended sentence in Italy
- Time limits prescrizione in Italy
- Trial in absentia Italy
- What is an avviso di garanzia
How sentences are calculated
- Aggravating and mitigating circumstances in Italy
- Alternatives to prison Italy
- Fines and pecuniary penalties in Italy
- How Italian criminal sentences are calculated
- Multiple offences continuazione in Italy
- Recidivism and sentence increase in Italy
- Rito abbreviato one third reduction
- Serving an Italian sentence in your home country
Sentences: drug offences
- Cannabis offences sentence in Italy
- Drug association sentence in Italy
- Drug trafficking sentence in Italy
- Small scale dealing sentence in Italy
Sentences: laundering and handling
- Handling stolen goods sentence in Italy
- Money laundering sentence in Italy
- Self laundering sentence in Italy
Sentences: business and financial offences
- Bankruptcy offences sentence in Italy
- Bribery and corruption sentence in Italy
- Corporate liability 231 sanctions
- Corporate offences sentence in Italy
- Fraud sentence in Italy
- Tax offences sentences in Italy
Sentences: offences against the person
- Assault and bodily harm sentence in Italy
- Homicide sentence in Italy
- Sexual offences sentence in Italy
- Stalking and mistreatment sentence in Italy
Sentences: property offences
Sentences: driving offences
Sentences: other offences
How long you can be held
- Detention pending extradition in Italy
- How long detained under an European Arrest Warrant in Italy
- Maximum pre trial detention terms in Italy
Your right to stay in Italy
- Appealing an expulsion order in 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 in 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 in Italy
- Reporting a crime in Italy denuncia or querela
- State compensation for victims of violent crime in Italy
- Victim of fraud in Italy
Medical negligence claims
- Criminal liability of doctors in Italy
- How personal injury damages are calculated in Italy
- How to claim for medical negligence Italy
- Medical malpractice compensation in Italy
- Surgical error and birth injury claims in Italy
- Time limits medical negligence claim in Italy
By city
- English speaking criminal lawyer Amalfi coast
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Bari
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Bologna
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Catania
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Fiumicino
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Florence
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Genoa
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Italy
- English speaking criminal lawyer lake Como
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Malpensa
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Milan
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Naples
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Palermo
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Pisa
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Rome
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Sardinia
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Sicily
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Turin
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Tuscany
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Venice
- English speaking criminal lawyer in Verona