On Monday 20 October, the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) held a joint meeting on the protection of lawyers worldwide. In particular, this involved leading discussions on the new ‘Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyers’ (see EUROPE B13599A28), which was definitively adopted last May.
A number of speakers gave their views on the issue, including the UN Special Rapporteur on the...