ECJ SAYS FEE GUIDANCE MUST BE LINKED TO LAWYER QUALITY
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed conditions on the legality of mandatory minimum fee structures within the European Union (EU), claiming that national courts must be satisfied that they help protect the interests of clients for them to be exempt from standard EU competition laws. Furthermore, in an Italian case that is a pan-EU precedent, the court has ruled that such systems must be authorised under national statutes to be valid. The ECJ said national courts must accept "there is a correlation between the level of fees and ...
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