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Anna Maria Assunta Muscat

Anna Maria Assunta Muscat

Torino

Summary

I believe that my main strengths are my inter-personal skills and advocacy. These include my communication skills and ability to interact with others, my capacity to take instructions, to negotiate and assertiveness. Being naturally bilingual, I am seeking to exploit my language skills and legal knowledge in an international context

Overview

2024
2024
years of professional experience

Work History

Lawyer

Legal
01.2020 - Current
  • I am currently employed in a legal firm where I am involved with Criminal, Immigration and Family Law cases
  • The Criminal work is focused mainly on cases of street crime and domestic violence
  • I work with undocumented immigrants or immigrants who do not have a residence permit who can be detained in administrative detention centres for deportation (CPR) when a deportation order has been issued
  • We assist clients with their applications for the various forms of International Protection
  • The Family Law work involves meeting and representing clients and preparing court documentation, and making divorce and separation applications
  • I am also engaged in cases at the Juvenile Court which involve minors who are received into the care of the local authority when they are released from parental care and Parental Responsibility is removed., ) at Grahame Stowe Bateson, Solicitors, in Leeds (UK)
  • This period included shadowing a barrister in Court and taking notes on behalf of the Grahame Stowe Bateson Firm
  • I spent time with a Family Lawyer and met various clients, providing litigation support to a barrister, representing a defendant in a trial at the Crown Court and I undertook work with a family lawyer, attending Court, considering documents and seeing clients.

SAA
1 1 - 09.2023
  • School of Management, Università degli Studi di Torino, I was appointed for a temporary position working with the Professor of Constitutional Law, Claudia Sartoretti, to teach a course on Comparative Constitutional Law in English
  • I was also asked to give a lesson on Immigration Law in Italy in English
  • Legal

01.2015 - 01.2019
  • At a Legal Firm in Ivrea in Civil Law and Criminal Law
  • The three main areas of Law where I was engaged are: Civil, Family and Criminal Law
  • Most of the cases were in the sphere of Criminal Law and included offences related to stalking, gender-based violence, drugs, drunk driving and offences against property
  • During my traineeship I drafted legal documents such as:
  • Civil Law: applications to recover money and oppositions to applications to recover money, property claims;
  • Family Law: divorce and separation applications;
  • Criminal Law: appeals in criminal cases, response to non-molestation injunctions
  • I visited clients in prison and represented clients in Court: I went into Court for hearings representing the defendant or complainant, on a daily basis
  • I also went to the Mediation Organism and assisted the Lawyer during meetings of the mediation process, I took instructions and represented clients directly during the mediation process
  • Prior to the issue of proceedings, parties have to engage in a specific mediation process
  • As part of the traineeship, I also took care of court duties at the Court Registries and at the office, of notifications, executions and protests
  • After having concluded 12 months of my traineeship I was granted right of audience at the local Bar Association
  • After two years of training, having gained experience I conducted a case load with no supervision
  • The traineeship allowed me to contribute to various cases including stalking, manslaughter caused by dangerous driving, possession with intent to supply drugs, separation and divorce.

Education

Master’s degree - Law

am qualified to defend female victims of violence having attended a course and having passed two exams in order to have access to the Fondo Regionale per le Donne Vittime di Violenza (Regional Trust Fund for Female Victims of Violence) for both civil and criminal cases. I attended the course - undefined

2021

Master's Degree in Law - Law

University Of Turin- Università Degli Studi Di Tor
Turin, Italy
09.2015

Diploma - undefined

University of Turin
2015

State Bar Exam preparation course: Criminal Law and Civil Law - undefined

Liceo Classico Carlo Botta
2009

Skills

  • I am naturally bilingual to litigation standards I was born and brought up in Italy in an English speaking household I have spent extensive periods throughout my life in the UK
  • DRIVING LICENCE
  • I have a full Italian/EU driving licence
  • IT SKILLS:
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)

Accomplishments

  • 2016-2018: contribution to the bi-monthly legal magazine “Ratio legis” in the field of Criminal Law, Civil Law
  • I contributed a number of articles, including the following titles:
  • Contraffazione” (Forgery),
  • Truffa” (Fraud)
  • Primo utente
  • Primo registrante?” (First user or First registrant?)
  • AIGA:
  • Former Board member and co-founder of the Ivrea branch of AIGA
  • (Associazione Italiana Giovani Avvocati) (Italian Association of Young Lawyers)
  • AIGA-MIUR (Ministry of Education) Project: raising awareness project in high schools about bullying, drunk driving and drugs;
  • Attending conferences that also grant credits for continuous professional development.

Timeline

Lawyer

Legal
01.2020 - Current

01.2015 - 01.2019

Master’s degree - Law

am qualified to defend female victims of violence having attended a course and having passed two exams in order to have access to the Fondo Regionale per le Donne Vittime di Violenza (Regional Trust Fund for Female Victims of Violence) for both civil and criminal cases. I attended the course - undefined

Master's Degree in Law - Law

University Of Turin- Università Degli Studi Di Tor

Diploma - undefined

University of Turin

State Bar Exam preparation course: Criminal Law and Civil Law - undefined

Liceo Classico Carlo Botta

SAA
1 1 - 09.2023

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