Practice areas
The firm’s fields of practice: criminal law, immigration law and asylum law.
Criminal law
- Police custody and voluntary interviews
- Immediate-appearance hearings
- Judicial investigation
- Criminal court
- Assize court and departmental criminal court
- Appeals
- Victims and civil parties
- Sentence enforcement and adjustment
Maître Torres acts at every stage of criminal proceedings: assistance in police custody and voluntary interviews, judicial investigation, immediate-appearance hearings, the criminal court, the assize court and the departmental criminal court, as well as on appeal.
Every case begins with a careful reading of the file. That is often where the procedural flaws, the inconsistencies and the lines of defence that make the difference in court are found.
She also represents victims of offences: filing a complaint, joining proceedings as a civil party, and claiming compensation before the court or the CIVI compensation board.
The defence does not end with the judgment: sentence adjustments, parole and applications before the sentence-enforcement judge.
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Immigration law
- Residence permits and renewals
- Appeals against refusals
- Removal orders (OQTF) and re-entry bans
- Administrative detention
- House arrest
- Family reunification and visas
- French nationality
Applications for and renewals of residence permits, appeals against refusals, challenges to removal orders (OQTF), re-entry bans and house-arrest orders. Appeal deadlines can be very short, 48 hours in some cases. Acting quickly matters.
Maître Torres assists her clients before the liberty and custody judge and the administrative court when they are placed in a detention centre.
She also handles family reunification, visas, the situation of spouses and parents of French children, applications based on private and family life, and nationality matters: declarations, naturalisation, challenges to refusals and deferrals.
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Asylum law
- Preparing the account and the OFPRA interview
- Appeals before the CNDA
- Dublin procedure
- Re-examination
- Subsidiary protection
- Statelessness
- Asylum seekers in detention
Preparing the account and the interview at the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), taking the time needed for the applicant’s story to be heard as it is.
If the claim is rejected, an appeal before the National Court of Asylum (CNDA): drafting the written submissions, gathering evidence, preparing for and attending the hearing.
Maître Torres also handles related procedures: the Dublin procedure, re-examination, subsidiary protection, statelessness, and the situation of asylum seekers in detention or under a removal order.
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