Revista Abogacía Spanish no. 127
NUMBER 127. MARCH 2021
The new General Statute of the Legal Profession, approved in the Council of Ministers on March 2, is the main topic of this issue of the Magazine. An issue in which we also report on the reform of the Legal Aid Regulation so that those on duty shift can get paid month by month; We report on the delivery of the I Equality Advocacy Award and interview the winners.
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New Statute of the Legal Profession: a firm step into the future
Almost 8 years have passed since the Plenary of the Consejo General The General Statute of the Legal Profession was approved by the Council of Ministers. Now, the Council of Ministers has given it the green light and it will come into force on 1 July. A text for the future, which has its most important points in matters such as professional secrecy, the modernisation of the Bar Associations, advertising and training. We also review the path that the text has taken until reaching its final approval and interview Enrique Sanz, president of the Commission that drew up the new Statute.
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Professional secrecy and criminal proceedings in the new General Statute of the Legal Profession
Manuel Marchena, president of the Criminal Chamber of the Tribunal Supremo, analyzes how professional secrecy is treated in the new Statute. The secret is situated among the "guiding principles and superior values of the practice of Law", with which this legal text gives it the character that claims its own nature.
The Legal Profession urges men to join real equality
La Abogacía Española celebrated Women's Day with an event in which two round tables were held on the wage gap and glass ceilings. In the same act, the I Equality Advocacy Awards were presented, which have gone to the Association of Women Lawyers of Valladolid and the Colegio de la Abogacía de Alicante and the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
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Antonio Suarez-Valdes: “We have contributed to the democratization of fuerzas de seguridad"
At the end of the 90s, in the middle of the ETA offensive, a sentence put a young lawyer on the map who was clear from the beginning where he wanted to direct his office: military law. Antonio Suárez-Valdés managed to get the Ministry of the Interior to pay a compensation supplement for dangerousness to the civil guards displaced to the Basque Country. With firm steps, the firm that he directs has established itself as a benchmark in the legal protection of the State Security Forces and Bodies.
