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In a recent interview, Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie called forward to welcoming the adoption of the draft law on reform of the representation before the appellate courts, by the end of the year.
To the Minister of Justice, “it is imperative” that the bill, which was debated on second reading in the National Assembly should intervene in the coming year, “be adopted before the end of the year,” because at first January 2011, will automatically become solicitors lawyers and litigants will be represented before the Court of Appeal by counsel who represented them at trial or other counsel of jurisdiction of the Court.

“For employees of solicitors, their compensation is the subject of an Assembly-Senate agreement, and some will be reclassified on items offered by the ministry,” held to clarify the minister.
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