Practice area

Public competitions and civil service

A flawed competitive procedure can decide a career. The firm assists candidates and public employees when the procedure does not follow the rules.

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Competitions

Protection of candidates

  • Exclusions: challenges to exclusions for lack of requirements or qualifications, or for defects in the application; interim relief for conditional admission to the tests.
  • Tests and evaluations: challenges to erroneous questions, unlawful evaluation criteria, irregularities in the conduct of the tests.
  • Rankings: scoring errors, unassessed qualifications, preferences and reserved quotas, ranking progression.
  • Access to documents: papers, commission minutes and documents of other candidates.

Civil service

Protection of employees

  • Careers and assignments: internal procedures, executive appointments, mobility and transfers.
  • Disciplinary proceedings: assistance in the proceedings and challenges to sanctions.
  • Grading and pay: higher duties, pay differences, career reconstruction.
  • Healthcare public employment: competitions, selections and careers in the NHS: see the dedicated page.
  • Universities and research: national scientific qualification (ASN), academic competitions, restricted-access courses, university procedures and elections.
Mind the deadlines: in the Italian civil service, jurisdiction is divided between the administrative courts (competitions) and the ordinary courts (employment relationship). Choosing the right avenue is the first act of the defence.
Competitions and algorithms. Automated marking, software-calculated scores, rankings managed by platforms: when selection runs through an information system, further rules apply. Read more on AI law.