BACKAntoine is counsel at Eptalex and heads the Litigation practice in the Jounieh (Lebanon) office.
He has been in charge of numerous litigation proceedings as lead counsel notably before the Lebanese and Emirati courts and the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC).
Antoine is recognized as one of Lebanon’s leading litigation lawyer before the Court of Cassation and Council of State.
He is also known for his extensive experience in public law especially Administrative Law and Constitutional Law. With more than four decades of substantial experience, he is also well versed in all areas of Civil and expert in Criminal Laws.
Antoine has further drafted and commented numerous Laws in many fields in Lebanon such as rent, amendment and reorganization of military courts, decentralization in Lebanon, amendment of the Lebanese penal code (including the offense of adultery, the domestic violence, the protection of married women, marital rape, the abolition of the excuse or mitigating circumstances for the perpetrator of the so-called “honor crime” etc.).
He has also commented the draft law in connection with the autonomy of the judicial authority in Lebanon.
Antoine has as well worked over many legal studies and researches (comparative studies between Lebanese, Egyptian and French laws) including the constraint in the Public International Law (International Treaty Law), the Lebanese administrative summary procedure, the minister in the constitutional system and the Lebanese political regime, the prime minister according to the Lebanese constitution, the legal regime of the deputy in the Lebanese parliamentary circle, the internal regulations of the Lebanese parliament, the self-defense, the presumption of innocence, the confession of the accused, the right of substitution of the supervisory authority in the municipalities’ law, the mitigating excuse in the Lebanese penal code.
He has further supervised and proofreaded several publications including the general theory of of proof before the administrative jurisdiction, the Cassation before the administrative jurisdiction, the third-party opposition before the administrative jurisdiction, the Appeal for abuse of power before the administrative jurisdiction.
- Memberships
Antoine is a member of the Beirut Bar Association since 1983.
- Teaching Activity
Antoine has been a lecturer of Civil Law, Commercial law, Labor Law, Philosophy and Communication and Expression Techniques at Institut Supérieur des Études Commerciales (CEC) formerly known as Belgium Center between 1986 and 1997