Practice focus
The work focuses on residential disputes: tobacco smoke in the home, smoking in shared entrances, on balconies, by lifts and on stair landings, smoke through ventilation, and preparing evidence, complaints and claims.
Approach: first, the facts, smoking location and evidence are assessed; the next route is then selected: complaint, formal demand, expert materials, court claim or negotiations.
Work you can request
- legal analysis of the situation;
- complaints to the local police officer, police, property manager or homeowners’ association, and Rospotrebnadzor;
- a pre-trial formal demand to the neighbour;
- drafting a court claim;
- support in court proceedings;
- preparing questions for a smoke or ventilation specialist;
- recovery of non-pecuniary damages and costs.