Team

Héctor Brotons Albert

Director del Estudio Jurídico

Graduated in Law from the University of Alicante and practicing lawyer of the Alicante Bar Association since 2003. He attended the School of Legal Practice also at ICALI in 2004. He is currently the director of the BROTSANBERT Law Firm. Specialist in criminal law and labor law.

Specialist in criminal law and labor law, specifically in public health procedures, occupational accidents, claims for damages, advisor to companies in the cannabis sector and policy reforms on cannabis. Expert in the defense of self-cultivators and organization associations of the cannabis self-consumption or social clubs. He is also a legal advisor to the ConFAC (Confederation of Federations of Cannabis Associations), spokesperson for the European Observatory for the Consumption and Cultivation of Cannabis (OECCC), member of the Forum Cannàbic Valencià and the FesHobe Association.

He has participated in the writing of four books: Resources to the Constitutional Court of Cannabis Social Clubs. Ed. Responsible Regulation, 2016; The Paths of Cannabis Regulation in Spain. Ed. Bellaterra, 2016; and in the book Investigation on Cannabis, what do scientific studies say? Ed. Concello de Catoira. The last book in which he has collaborated is with the OECCC: Self-cultivation and use of cannabis in Spain, Ed. Letrame, 2019. He also writes periodic articles in the main state publications in the cannabis sector and gives lectures in many national and international forums.

He has carried out technical advisory work in obtaining licenses for cultivation, genetic research and production of medicinal cannabis. And he advises institutions and political parties in the design of public policies and drafting of laws related to cannabis. He also advises media communication.

Last March 2.019 he participated in the last edition of the CND (UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs) held in Vienna, as a representative of the ConFAC, which in turn is a representative of civil society and where it prepares and negotiates the lines of political action on drugs for the coming years.

Esther C. Sánchez Sánchez

Directora del despacho de Alicante

Esther C. Sánchez Sánchez has a degree in Law from the University of Alicante, a lawyer and director of the BROTSANBERT Law Firm at its headquarters in Alicante and an advisor to the European Observatory for the Consumption and Cultivation of Cannabis. In addition, she is a collaborating lawyer of REMA.

Collaborating lawyer of REMA (State Network of Anti-prohibitionist Women in the Field of Drugs), of the Cannàbic Valencià Forum, and of different Cannabis Associations distributed throughout the national territory.

She is specialized in Criminal Law and has extensive experience, of more than fifteen years, in the defense of all kinds of matters and more specifically in crimes against Public Health, defending cases related to all kinds of narcotic substances, very particularly those cases related to cannabis. In them it has a large number of positive results in all instances, with acquittals in processes in which the accused, of the commonly called drug trafficking crime, have not been sentenced to prison terms. nor to the payment of any fine.

She is also specialized in Administrative Law, holding the defense of cannabis users and consumers before the different Public Administrations and Administrative Litigation Courts both for economic sanctions imposed for possession and consumption of drugs on the public highway, as well as for fines related to tests drug detection (drogotest).

She has a long history in advising and defending, both criminal and administrative, of a large number of cannabis associations, as well as of their members. Since her professional beginnings, she actively collaborates in different specialized magazines in the cannabis sector, dealing with. the subject from different perspectives that go from the writing of articles on the subject, to the resolution of doubts and legal queries raised by its users. For more than three decades, this professional activity has been compatible with participation in talks, debates and presentations on the aspects cannabis laws in different media, forums, festivals and cannabis fairs.

Joan Bertomeu i Castelló

Director del despacho de Valencia

Bertomeu i Castelló, Joan. He has a degree in Law and Criminology from the University of Valencia, he also obtained the CAP at the School of Legal Practice of the Illustrious College of Lawyers of Alzira. He works as a lawyer and criminologist directing the Valencia headquarters of the Law Firm Brotsanbert.

He works as a lawyer and criminologist directing the Valencia headquarters of the Brotsanbert Law Firm, a law firm specialized in the cannabis sector. He specializes in criminal law, public and community international law in the field of public health and drug control.

Currently he advises companies and associations of the cannabis sector in crime prevention, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food law. Regular contributor to the press of the cannabis sector in specialized articles. In the social field, he collaborates with different entities and groups in defense of rights human rights and civil liberties.

Andreu Moreno i Tarín

Director del despacho de Valencia

Degree in Law from the University of Valencia, Master in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice from the Institute of Human Rights of Valencia and practicing lawyer at the Illustrious College of Lawyers of Valencia.

He is a specialist in criminal law, especially in crimes related to public health and drugs and in the protection of fundamental rights, both individual and of groups and social organizations. He also works as an advisor on public drug policies and is an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Law of the University of Valencia.

Currently he advises companies and associations of the cannabis sector in crime prevention, pharmaceutical, agricultural and food law. Regular contributor to the press of the cannabis sector in specialized articles. In the social field, he collaborates with different entities and groups in defense of rights human rights and civil liberties.