Criminal law

The Paris-based firm Le Tutour Avocats is involved in all stages of criminal proceedings to ensure the best possible defence for its clients. With their recognised expertise, the firm’s solicitors assist defendants, accused persons and victims of offences.

Solenn Le Tutour is a former Secretary of the Paris Bar Association (Class of 2010) [SLT1] In this capacity, she has represented around a hundred defendants in proceedings initiated following criminal offences.

The team represents the firm’s clients during investigations (in the event of a summons for voluntary questioning, police custody, or before the investigating judge

Recognised expertise in accidents caused by criminal offences

As a criminal law firm in Paris, Le Tutour Avocats has developed recognised experience in complex litigation arising from individual and collective accidents in the areas of air transport, fires, cable car transport, maritime transport and serial damage, where gross negligence, carelessness or recklessness in matters of safety has resulted in injury or death to several people.

• Involuntary manslaughter and involuntary injury: the firm acts in criminal proceedings initiated following collective or individual accidents that have caused death or injury, in France and abroad.

• Deception: the firm also acts when a legal or natural person has deliberately misled an individual or a company as to the characteristics of its product or service.

• Offences related to aviation law: the firm acts in cases of offences related to the non-possession of an air carrier certificate.

• Criminal proceedings in France and abroad: the firm represents clients involved in offences committed abroad and foreign clients involved in offences committed in France. Thanks to Solenn Le Tutour’s dual legal culture in French and English law, Le Tutour Avocats supports its clients in cross-border cases.

• Victims of criminal offences: the firm defends victims in criminal proceedings initiated or to be initiated following an offence that has caused them harm, filing complaints, bringing civil actions and providing support in the process of obtaining compensation for the harm suffered. The firm ensures that its clients are able to obtain full compensation for their harm before the competent courts.

A Strategic and effective criminal defence

Choosing a criminal lawyer means ensuring rigorous support at every stage of the proceedings. Le Tutour Avocats adopts a tailor-made approach, combining in-depth analysis of the issues at stake with a defence strategy adapted to French and foreign courts. Le Tutour Avocats is committed to offering its clients a comprehensive approach to their defence. Legal action may be useful before several types of courts, in one or more countries. 

Le Tutour Avocats has a large network of solicitors with whom it collaborates on a daily basis in order to offer its clients the assistance of the best specialists in their field.

The firm is committed to offering its clients a personalised and responsive defence, ensuring that each client understands the issues at stake in their case and is able to assert their rights in the best possible conditions.

[SLT1]Link to the 2010 promotion conference website https://www.laconference.net/la-conference/les-promotions/2010/

Examples of Le Tutour Avocats’ interventions in criminal law

– Assistance before the investigating judge hearing the case of unintentional injury and manslaughter following the PIP health scandal

– Assistance to a family of victims and the victims’ association in the context of an investigation into manslaughter following a collision between two helicopters during the filming of the television programme Dropped in Argentina

– Assistance to a family before the investigating judge hearing a case of manslaughter following the death of a 9-year-old girl while she was playing in a swimming pool, sucked into a suction outlet

– Representation of transport organisers before the criminal court following a private plane crash in Courchevel