Canary Islands improves the remuneration of lawyers and solicitors for free assistance

With the new Justice resolution, the number of clients of each lawyer is also limited to a maximum of six people

May 16 2023 (12:45 WEST)
High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC)
High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC)

The Ministry of Public Administrations, Justice and Security has approved a resolution that improves the remuneration received by lawyers and solicitors for their professional actions in free legal assistance.

Specifically, it has issued new instructions and certification criteria for the homogeneous application of the modules and bases of economic compensation for the remuneration for this service of the bar associations and solicitors, reports in a statement the Government of the Canary Islands, which has budgeted for this year 23 million euros.

The general director of Relations with the Administration of Justice, Mónica Ceballos, explains that this resolution determines how the judicial resolutions of file and provisional or free dismissal in criminal proceedings by the courts of instruction should be remunerated.

From now on it will be done by the concept of "abbreviated procedure with conformity in instruction". It also defines the criterion by which incompatibilities with the duty lawyer must be remunerated, which will be carried out by the concept "ordinary assistance".

Likewise, it clarifies the previous instruction on the application of the Special Immigration Shift, which includes assistance in police station or immigration brigade, court, foreign internment center or similar, application for international protection/asylum, as well as appeals for reform and appeal against the internment order, if necessary, and appeal for reversal and contentious-administrative appeal against the expulsion order.

It also establishes that each professional designated by the Bar Association will attend to a maximum of six people, except in exceptional cases that must be duly justified.

This resolution will have full legal effects and will be applied from the certification corresponding to the second quarter of 2023 presented by each of the four bar associations of the archipelago. 

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