Team

Born in Veurne on 4/2/1959, graduated with a degree in Law and aggregated for Higher Secondary Education at the VUB in 1981.

He was enrolled at the Bar of Lawyers at the Bar in Ypres on 1/10/1981.

Mr Patrick DUYCK has taught for many years at the Training Institute (now Syntra-West) in Ypres-Veurne-Diksmuide, including business management, social legislation, labour law and company law.

Born in Ypres on 06/12/1989, graduated with a Master in Law in 2012.

Since 18/09/2012 , he is enrolled at the Bar of Lawyers in Ypres.

He worked as a lawyer for a well-known accounting firm.

After an internship at the federal Department of Justice, he decided to join the legal profession. Since then, he has been actively associated with the Bar of Ypres and is a member of the Conference of Young Lawyers of Ypres.

He now practices the general practice of the law with a preference for civil, criminal and economic matters in the broad sense.

He is regularly appointed as a mediator of the debt by the labor court and has also had several companies in trouble during their restructuring (MDG). He also acts as a provisional administrator.

In the summer of 2014, he received additional recognition as a lawyer for minors. In 2015-2016, he completed the curator training.

Born in Kortrijk on 26.09.1958, has been a lawyer since 1982.

From 1997 until 2018 he taught the course immigration law to lawyer-apprentices during their bar training. He is a member of the commission of immigration law to the committee of Flemish bars.

After his traineeship at the bar of Liège he joined the law firm of his late father, Mr André KEMPINAIRE (lawyer since 1956).

When Mr. André KEMPINAIRE pursued politics full-time, Mr Jan KEMPINAIRE has taken over the firm. In May 2020 the firm of Mr Jan KEMPINAIRE has merged with the firm DUYCK EN CATTRYSSE.

Born in Ypres on 24/02/1993. Graduated with a Master in Law and Notary at the University of Aalter in 2017. On 2/10/2017 she started her internship at the Law Office Duyck & Cattrysse. Since 17/10/2017 she enrolled at the Bar of Lawyers in Ypres.

"Born in Poperinge in 1993. After graduating in 2017 as Master of Laws, he obtained a Master of Notary Law in 2018, both at the Free University of Brussels.

Subsequently, he chose to practice the legal profession at the bar of Antwerp for two years, after which he has returned to his home town to join the firm. Since April 2020, he is a member of the bar of West-Flanders, stationed in Ypres.

Mr. Duyck is active in a broad range of legal areas, though he prefers law cases on construction and real estate. In order to broaden his knowledge on these matters, he is currently following an additional graduate in real estate at the Catholic University of Leuven."

Mr. Alain Coppens has more than thirty years of practical experience as a lawyer. Before that he was attached to various ministerial cabinets and from 1985 to 1991 district commissioner for Ypres, Diksmuide and Veurne. Mr. Coppens, who has a master's degree in constitutional and administrative law, has extensive expertise in the broad field of administrative disputes such as expropriations, spatial planning and the environment, government contracts, and more generally everything that has to do with real estate: commercial lease, land lease, contracting. , etc. He regularly publishes on these topics in various legal journals.

The firm has been reinforced since a few years with the collaboration of Mrs Marina GIRALDO, family business mediator. Mrs Marina Giraldo is responsible for the daily management of the files and the telephone answering service: she is well familiar with the status and progress of the files and can help you immediately with any questions.

Secretarial services

The administration and secretarial services are provided by Mrs Lucia Lazo, Marieke Moerman and, last but not least, Ann Deweerdt. They also commit themselves daily for the proper functioning of the office.