Casper Dekker is a senior lawyer specialising in administrative law and environmental and planning law. His particular areas of focus are: environment and planning, administrative fines, scarce rights, enforcement, administrative law and litigation and freedom of government information. Caspar has been working for THNa since 2016, and was invested as a lawyer in 2017.
Casper obtained his LLM in Constitutional and Administrative Law from Utrecht University in 2016. He completed the specialist course in Environmental and Planning Law in 2022.
Although Casper possesses extensive experience in both advisory services and litigation, he specialises mostly in matters of enforcement and the associated supervisory and regulatory authorities. Besides general administrative and procedural law, he is also an expert in zoning and permitting matters. Specific areas of focus include administrative fines and scarce rights.
Casper advises and litigates for companies and other market operators in their dealings with supervisory authorities and regulations. He frequently negotiates with government agencies to avoid enforcement or to facilitate the permitting process. If necessary, he represents clients in legal proceedings, right up to the highest administrative court in the Netherlands: the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State.
Casper frequently writes about his focus areas on LinkedIn. He also shares his expertise at seminars and inhouse events, and publishes about environmental and planning law and administrative law in legal journals.