HIBAPRESS
The draft law regulating the legal profession carries important developments at the level of access and training, most notably the adoption of a match system instead of an exam, with the aim of improving the quality of selection.
Considering the importance of training in qualifying lawyers and improving the level of their performance, it was stipulated that the candidate who successfully passes the match to access the profession acquires the status of a student and spends in this capacity a basic training period of one year at the Training Institute, during which he receives theoretical training and after completing it, obtains a certificate of competence to practice the legal profession, which is issued to him by the institute, then training for twenty-four (24) months under the supervision of the concerned Bar Association, including twenty (20) months in the office of a lawyer appointed by the head of the Bar and training for four (4) months in a field related to the practice of the legal profession in one of the administrations or public institutions or other public law entities or public companies. Alongside this, new provisions concerning the training aspect have been stipulated, by assigning a more important role to the institute, which is to provide specialized training for practicing lawyers in order to enable them to develop their expertise, which enables them to keep pace with the developments and transformations that national and international legislation is witnessing in the field of law and justice, and to grant them a certificate by which they acquire the status of specialized lawyers. In an effort to make the training of lawyers a tool to upgrade their professional capabilities and qualify them to keep abreast of developments related to professional practice, it was stipulated that lawyers are obliged to undergo continuous training and to consider any breach of this duty as a professional breach.
