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Feasibility study
Analysis of the act or provision, the available claim, its requirements and deadlines, and the arguments available. It ends with a written recommendation.
Some decisions of the State can only be corrected before the Supreme Court of Justice. These are technical matters with strict formal requirements, where it pays to know whether there is a real prospect of success before investing in a claim. That is why the work always starts with a feasibility study.
Qualification: Master’s degree in Administrative Law.
We accept each matter after assessing its scope, its deadlines and what the proceedings will require.
Analysis of the act or provision, the available claim, its requirements and deadlines, and the arguments available. It ends with a written recommendation.
Preparation and filing before the Full Supreme Court of Justice, in matters accepted after the study.
Challenges before the Third Chamber against administrative acts that breach the law.
Restoration, before the Third Chamber, of rights harmed by an administrative decision.
Applications to provisionally suspend the effects of the act, where available and justified.
Second opinions on ongoing cases and technical review of filings and case files.
Admission and the decision rest with the Court. We do not guarantee outcomes or timing, and we do not accept a matter without the prior study.
We identify the act or provision, the date of notification or publication and what you are seeking. We check for conflicts of interest.
Available claim, requirements, deadlines, evidence and foreseeable steps. Written recommendation.
If we recommend acting and you accept the proposal, we prepare the claim and, where available, the application for interim measures.
Handling of submissions, filings and notices until judgment, with a report on each step.
Proceedings being mostly written does not mean they require no in-person steps. Before accepting a matter we identify notices, evidence and hearings, and tell you how they will be handled.
They are not successive levels of the same case. Each hears its own claims, with its own requirements.
Hears unconstitutionality claims against laws, decrees, acts and other provisions, on substantive or procedural grounds.
Hears claims against acts of the public administration, including annulment and full-jurisdiction claims.
Takes part in administrative litigation, depending on the type of claim.
For guidance only:
If the matter moves to a feasibility study, we will ask for the file through an agreed channel. Please do not attach it to the web enquiry.
No. Unconstitutionality claims are heard by the Full Supreme Court and seek a declaration that a provision or act breaches the Constitution. Administrative litigation claims, such as annulment or full-jurisdiction claims, are heard by the Third Chamber and concern the legality of administrative acts.
Not necessarily. An administrative litigation claim may be the first time a matter reaches a court, and an unconstitutionality claim is not an appeal against an earlier judgment. These are proceedings with their own requirements.
A full-jurisdiction claim seeks to restore an individual right that has been harmed and may include compensation; it is subject to time limits and prior requirements. An annulment claim seeks to set aside an act that breaches the law.
The choice depends on what you want to achieve and how much time has passed. It is settled in the feasibility study.
No. Admission and the decision rest with the Court. What we do is tell you frankly, in the feasibility study, whether we recommend filing.
Tell us which act or provision affects you and when it was notified or published. We will tell you whether a feasibility study makes sense.
Sending an enquiry does not engage the firm or confirm that we will take on the matter.
This page provides general information about Panamanian law. It is not legal advice and does not replace the analysis of a specific case. Sending an enquiry does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship: an engagement is formalised only by written agreement, after the matter has been assessed and checked for conflicts of interest.