The Law on the Right to Defense has been definitively approved, allowing bar associations to publish fees. The suspension of the Senate Plenary as a result of the DANA that has hit the Levante has meant de facto the definitive approval of the norm, which will come into force with the text approved by the Congress of Deputies and which will be published as law in the BOE in the coming days, as reported this Wednesday by the General Council of Spanish Lawyers in a statement.
The Senate was scheduled to vote this Wednesday on the bill with the changes introduced by some parliamentary groups, but the suspension has prevented the vote, which has meant that tomorrow the deadlines set for the Upper House to be able to introduce modifications to the text will be exceeded. .
The president of the Spanish Bar, Salvador González, has highly valued the work of the Senate, as well as the fact that the final approval of the law can become effective before the end of the year. “The Law on the Right to Defense consolidates the legal guarantees of citizens, providing an organic law to an essential right included in the Constitution. In addition, it offers new instruments that should facilitate the professional practice of law,” González pointed out.
The Law on the Right to Defense will reflect that the Colleges “must protect professionals who consider themselves disturbed or pressured in the exercise of their duties and report all regulatory measures or public or private actions that undermine the right to defense.” It also contains clear references to conciliation in the practice of law.
The standard also includes the legal framework to establish guiding criteria on professional fees within the Bar Associations. The law upholds the right to “develop and publish guiding, objective and transparent criteria that allow the reasonable amount of fees to be quantified and calculated.” The legal profession has repeatedly maintained that reference fees are an essential tool for assessing costs and, therefore, so that professionals can anticipate to their clients the possible economic consequences of taking legal action.
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