Looking for a lawyer in Bayrampaşa?

Our office in Bakırköy follows the files of Bayrampaşa residents whichever courthouse the dispute is heard in. About 25 minutes to Bakırköy by the coach terminal and metro links.

Given the volume of wholesale trade, current account, cheque and promissory note and enforcement files are heavy.

What do we handle in Bayrampaşa?

Commercial and company law, enforcement and bankruptcy, employment law and compensation law are the headings that stand out in our Bayrampaşa files. We take files in other areas of law as well; which court has jurisdiction becomes clear at the first meeting, according to the nature of the dispute.

Main neighbourhoods

We take files from across the district; the neighbourhoods we work in most are Kartaltepe, Yıldırım, Muratpaşa, Terazidere, Vatan.

How does the meeting work?

You can have the first meeting at our office in Bakırköy in person or by video. If you send your documents digitally beforehand, we complete the preliminary assessment before the meeting and set out the roadmap in a single session.

Recovering debts in wholesale trade

The volume of wholesale trade around the coach terminal and the Vatan corridor concentrates Bayrampaşa files in commercial debt. Two things decide these files: the nature of the document and which route of enforcement is chosen.

Where the claim rests on a cheque or promissory note, the attachment route reserved for negotiable instruments is used: the period for objecting is five days, the objection goes to the enforcement court rather than the enforcement office, and it does not by itself stop the proceedings. That route is markedly faster, but the instrument must qualify as a negotiable one — the absence of a required element such as the maturity date, the place of issue, the sum or the signature turns it into an ordinary document and changes the route entirely.

Where the claim rests on invoices and a current account, proceedings without a judgment are used; if the debtor objects within seven days the proceedings stop and an action to set aside the objection must be brought. In that action, properly kept commercial books can be evidence in favour of their owner; uncertified books are evidence only against him.

For more detail see our article on collecting on cheques and promissory notes.

A practical note: In wholesale trade, proving delivery matters as much as the debt itself. If the delivery note bears no stamp and signature of the buyer, whether the goods were delivered becomes arguable. Carrier or transport documents should be kept in a form that shows the date of delivery and the recipient.

Which courthouse will your case be heard in?

Disputes within the boundaries of Bayrampaşa are heard at the Istanbul Courthouse (Çağlayan). This site, the central courthouse for the European side, has civil courts of first instance, commercial, family, labour, civil courts of peace, intellectual and industrial property, criminal courts of first instance and serious crime courts, together with the enforcement offices. Because the intellectual and industrial property courts sit here, this courthouse is the single address for trade mark and design disputes on the European side.

Administrative disputes are heard at a separate site, in the Istanbul administrative and tax courts.