Initial assessment
A paid review of your documents. It ends in one of two ways: a written strategy, or a plain statement that there is no case worth bringing.
Fixed fee
What this costs, and why no one can quote you a price today
Every case depends on the documents behind the record. Until I have read them, any figure would be a guess. So the work starts with a paid assessment and continues at fixed fees once the scope is clear.
How it is priced
How the work is priced
Four kinds of work, each priced in its own way. You know the fee before each stage starts.
Data access request
Preparing and filing the request to the Commission, and explaining what the answer means for you.
Fixed fee
Deletion request
Building the file, filing it and handling the exchange until the decision. The fee is named after I have read the case.
Fixed, quoted after assessment
Hourly work
For what cannot be scoped in advance: provisional measures, revision, work with extradition counsel or national authorities.
Hourly rate
Extra costs
What is not included
Some costs depend on third parties. I tell you in advance when each one is needed.
- Translations of documents into a working language of the Commission.
- Certification — notarisation and apostilles.
- Local counsel where proceedings run in another country.
- Travel, if it is ever needed. Usually it is not.
An honest rule
No success fee, and no guarantee
I do not charge a fee that depends on the result. The decision belongs to an independent Commission, and the fee pays for the work that goes before it.
A guarantee of outcome is a warning sign. Anyone who promises one is either guessing or implying influence inside the institution — which does not exist.
Before you hire anyone
Questions worth asking any lawyer, including me
Good answers are specific. Vague ones are an answer too.
- 01
Have you handled cases from this requesting country?
- 02
Which ground for deletion do you think applies, and why?
- 03
Who will actually write the file?
- 04
What exactly does the fee cover, and what will cost extra?
- 05
What happens if the Commission refuses?
Next step
Ask me these at the first contact. Then decide.