Initial ideas on a logo. All would need further work.
Could be very useful!
Why not use the British one, as we all recognise it?
Any suggestions on a logo?
Go on, give yourself a BIG pat on the back. 5 members in less than 5 minutes too!
Can’t take the credit I’m afraid - it was another members suggestion - have no idea why I hadn’t thought of it - doh!! But I have rounded up two excellent legal eagles to help so I am going to pat myself on the back for that!
Great idea, Catharine. Thanks for this one. Will probably be here a lot!
URGENT.
Dear Catherine
I need to find a bilingual lawyer who understands defamation. Am being threatened by a US millionaire about a blogpost. My usual lawyer is out of his depth with defamation. How can I find one?
Cheers
Frances
I highly recommend Antoine Mouton in Biarritz. Let me know how you get on. X
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Hi there,
I am looking for recommendations for a lawyer who speaks English, and would be willing to take on a file relating to a real-estate transaction in the Bordeau area.
Thanks in advance!
I can recommend @Guillaume_Barlet-Bat of Cubism Law, you can get in touch with him on Survive France if you like
Hi
I’m wondering if anyone could give me any constructive advice.
I am retired. My mentally handicapped son has lived with me, on and off, for 5 years. He previously went to school here ('93- 97). Then neighbours put barbed wire across the road and he had an accident on his mobylette, damaging his brain. The police refused to do anything so he dashed back to England,( in his trauma) to stay with his brother, where he was taken into hospital.
He is, at present, in a hospital, under a french section. He was awarded AAH last November, but the CAF, after much paperwork has been sent, have refused to pay out, saying that he doesn’t live here “regularly” . He has been in and out of hospital here in France for 2 years now, so its obvious that he does.
I have appealed but I need to know the facts about length of time for “regular” life here, etc…does he need to work a little bit (he isn’t capable of much), can anything be done? Thank you.
Thank you, Catherine Higginson. I will find and contact him.
As the british embassy/consulate for their list - or it might even be on their website
Hi,
a friend of mine asked me to check on her property as she is in Germany and asked me to ready it for a real estate agent and check on her uncle’s biederman furniture. She said someone might be there but the woman had agreed to leave if she could show all the proper papers of ownership and that the woman had no legal squatter rights as she already had another address. Believing her, I took keys to the house. I went six times and saw signs of people but no people. One time the papers I was supposed to show them vanished. my friend asked me to retrieve them and clean up. So I went inside, no furniture, just a bunch of belongings. No idea who except possibly that woman mentioned. I scooped up three items that might prove the identity of the trespasser and took them to the police (not gendarmerie) and they told me to 1) not go back 2) hold onto the items as they wouldn’t hold them 3) give them my name and number. Three days later, the gendarmerie come to my house and accuse me of criminal offenses of trespassing and theft. They tell me I’m going to jail. Fourteen days later they slap me with a court order and two criminal charges of fraudulent trespassing and fraudulent theft. I had zero idea that my friend, a german lawyer, would ask me to do anything not above board.
Hello and welcome to SF. Sounds an utterly terrible situation, but I’m not clear what question you are asking and, in any event, I think that you need better legal advice than you will get on an Internet forum, however well intentioned the members.
Does your own house insurance include legal advice? Many do.
Otherwise there are ways to legal help, like this
Bonjour Guillaume.
I am new to ‘survive France’ in a desperate attempt to get pointed in the right direction to make a complaint or get access to ‘citizens advice bureau’ regards a 12 year long inheritance case of my grand mother.
I am now travelling to St Tropez to force a response from the lawyers.
Merci, Candice
Bonjour Candice,
Please feel free to contact me (guillaume.barlet-batada@gunnercooke.com) and my assistant Aurélie (aurelie.auffray@gunnercooke.com) and we can schedule a free initial conversation.
Kind regards,
Guillaume
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Good to have you back on SF Guillaume!