Environmental, Land Use, and Property Law

Pioneering legal service applications in the complex geopolitical landscape of the Horn of Africa, HLCS presents its dedicated Environmental, Land Use, and Property Law practice area to cater to clients in various sectors. These include construction, real estate, environmental conservation organizations, private landholders, and governmental bodies involved in crafting regional land law policies and regulatory decisions.

Our team possesses a profound appreciation for three key spheres: the varied indigenous understandings shaping land ownership, the deep Islamic principles influencing property transactions across Somalia, and the intervention-fueled amalgamation attempting to infuse civil law. This breath-taking understanding is channeled into the formation of strategies specifically competent in responding to scenarios throughout environmental statutory regulations while overcoming land disputes and rights clearance challenges.

Our versatile and apt team provides well-designed legal consultation to achieve urban planning justification coherence, enforce quality green building standards, and address potential environmental hazard risks that may impact nature and soil exploitation, ensuring full compliance with Somali governance requirements.

Our functional jurisdiction currently covers relevant Somali constituencies in real estate transaction representations (including debenture compliances, statutory rental caps, and lease restrictions), advisory services on incidents that might result in land violations, dedicated property registration expertise tempered by market trend analysis, and protection of client rights. Progressing towards nature balance and sustainability are just a few highlights that showcase our broad range of services offered.

Our experts have been at the forefront of major constitutional drafting, legislative drafting, capacity building, law reform and legal analysis in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. The Founding Partners were an integral part of the Provisional Constitution currently in force in Somalia and have participated in the constitutional process that led to the adoption of the current constitution.

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We have legal experts in HLSC on Roman Civil Law, an integral part of current Somali law.

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Experts on British Common Law.

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We work on legal reform in Somalia.

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Legal experts conversant in English, Swahili, Somali, German, Arabic.

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We have a vast digital library of Somali laws.

We have specialized professionals in various law niches and are committed to helping clients who need legal advice or have lawsuit issues in East Africa and beyond.

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