ITALY ECJ
November 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered Italy to liberalise its regulations governing access to the Italian legal profession, by demanding that its national bar council does not reject out of hand qualifications gained in other European Union (EU) Member States. The court ruled that by blocking part-qualified French national Christine Morgenbesser from studying as an apprentice lawyer in Genoa because Italian law required her to hold a legal diploma awarded or confirmed by an Italian university and that she was not yet qualified in France, ...
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