Punishing lawyers

The regulation which caused the first announced meeting to fail, foresees the presence of a commissioner as a filter that will decide if the 9-member Discipline Committee panel will review the reports against lawyers.

According to the new law, the Commission of Discipline is made of 9 members, 6 lawyers, one High Council of Justice member, one from the Ministry of Justice and one from the academic world.

Judge Dritan Hallunaj, member of the HCJ, is one of the members of this committee. I think that it is time to look for the consequences that come after the decisions made by the committee. We hope that the chamber will influence to increase the lawyer’s role”, Hallunaj declared.

For the first time the regulation includes the commissioner’s right to summon eye witnesses. This role is similar to that of the main judge, who decides what will happen with the discipline requests and if they should go for a review or not.

“Every time that there will be a request, it will be presented to the chairman and the commissioner has the right to pass it at the discipline committee”, Hallunaj underlined.

The voting for revoking the license excludes the right to abstain. Virgjil Karaj, the General Secretary of the Chamber of Lawyers, declared that the first meeting will be held in April.

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