Parliamentary session mulls draft law restricting representational activity

Parliamentary session mulls draft law restricting representational activity Physical persons are only allowed to participate as legal representatives
Milli Majlis
October 31, 2017 15:40
Parliamentary session mulls draft law restricting representational activity
Report

Baku. 31 October. REPORT.AZ/ Draft amendments to the law "On lawyers and advocacy activities", Civil Procedural and Administrative Procedural Codes were discussed at today's plenary session of the Milli Majlis.

Report informs, Ali Huseynli, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy and State Building said.

He noted that according to the draft submitted by the Supreme Court to the Milli Majlis, physical persons are only allowed to participate as legal representatives in the courts of their close relatives.

The draft amendment intends to substitute a representational institute with a more professional-advocacy institution in a number of litigations, as well as further strengthening of advocacy institution was offered. Moreover, according to the draft, participation of the representative wouldn't be allowed during consideration of cases at the cassation instance, namely in the Supreme Court. 

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