After two years of unprecedented mobilizations by legal operators against Justice, including a 'lobby' on the Internet, the Catalan minister is going to reform the fees, although he will not repeal them.<\/p>\n
Never has a rule promoted by the Ministry of Justice that affected the legal world caused so much response from all professionals and legal operators in Spain. Two years after the Government of Mariano Rajoy approved, at the request of its Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallard\u00f3n \u2013now resigned\u2013, Law 10\/12 on judicial fees, the rain that has fallen against it since practically every fronts has been constant and almost impossible to summarize. Tras dos a\u00f1os de movilizaciones sin precedentes por los operadores jur\u00eddicos en contra de Justicia, incluido un ‘lobby’ en Internet, el ministro Catal\u00e1 va a reformar las tasas, aunque no las derogar\u00e1. Nunca una norma promovida por el Ministerio de Justicia que afectara al mundo legal hab\u00eda causado tanta contestaci\u00f3n de todos los profesionales y…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil","category-mercantil","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nLawyers \u2013 with their General Council and the 83 associations at the helm \u2013, attorneys, the Judiciary, the Ombudsman, the parliamentary opposition groups, the unions, professors and judges, among other operators, have shown their rejection of a rule that according to the majority of critics "could be unconstitutional, since it violates the right of citizens to access Justice and obtain effective judicial protection enshrined in the Constitution."
\nBut during this biennium, Minister Gallard\u00f3n has been inflexible on this matter, defending the usefulness of the rates and turning a deaf ear to the countless protests, critical reports, several unconstitutionality appeals or the presentation of more than 170,000 signatures that were collected through of the Internet platform change.org against court fees.
\nHowever, last week, and after one hundred days of taking office, the new Minister of Justice, Rafael Catal\u00e1, admitted in a radio interview that the legislation implemented on fees is an "element of tension" and that he hopes to be able to present before the end of January his reform proposal.
\nSources from the Ministry of Justice have confirmed to EXPANSI\u00d3N the minister's statements, and have added that "this proposal to review the rates, which will be an adjustment or modulation, will be submitted to lawyers, solicitors and other legal operators so that it can be agreed upon." .
\nIt has not been specified what impact this reform will have, but its repeal is ruled out because the minister has recalled that "there must be a system of fees so that those who make particular use of Justice collaborate in its financing."
\nHowever, this fact does not satisfy the most belligerent legal operators against fees, such as lawyers.
\nIts president, Carlos Carnicer, has stated that \u201cthe Legal Profession does not like the verb review. We ask for repeal, not an agreement or a step back on rates. "We ask for its repeal as we consider it unconstitutional, unfair and disproportionate."
\nFor his part, the dean of the Cartagena Bar Association and creator of the Twitter Brigade against taxes, Jos\u00e9 Muelas, assures that "a reform must involve a repeal or a revision of the Catalan one, which is eliminated for natural persons and the pymes. In any case, an agreement before the end of the month seems impossible.
\nA 'lobby' of 10,000 Internet lawyers<\/strong>The\u00a0Twitter Brigade<\/em>, which uses the #T symbol on the profiles of its supporters on the networks, is a protest movement, regardless of ideologies, that wants to warn citizens "of the dismantling of justice."
\nIt was born on Twitter and this pressure group that already brings together more than 10,000 lawyers and jurists from all over Spain has spread to other social networks such as Facebook and Instagram and a website. It was created in November 2013, on the first anniversary of the publication in the BOE of the judicial fees law.
\nThis\u00a0lobby<\/em>\u00a0assures that \u00abthe Rates Law is manifestly unfair. Furthermore, although it is said that the proceeds will go to Free Justice, it is not known what the money has been used for.
\nRate Chronology<\/strong>– 31\/05\/2012
\nThe CGPJ publishes a harsh report against rates.
\n– 28\/09\/2012
\nThe Legal Profession rejects the imposition of new fees because it makes it impossible for citizens to access Justice.
\n– 31\/10\/2012
\nThousands of lawyers protest throughout Spain against the introduction of fees.
\n– 20\/11\/2012
\nLaw 10\/2012 on judicial fees promoted by Minister Gallard\u00f3n is approved.
\n– 30\/11\/2012
\nThe 83% of the Spaniards, against judicial fees, according to a Metroscopia survey.
\n– 12\/02\/2013
\nThe Ombudsman presents her recommendations to the minister to avoid the negative effect of the fees.
\n– 19\/02\/2013
\nThe Socialist Parliamentary Group, accompanied by the Justice for All Platform, presents its unconstitutionality appeal to the TC.
\n– 06\/09\/2013
\nOrder of the National Court raising the question of unconstitutionality before the TC.
\n– 20\/03\/2014
\nOrder of the Supreme Court establishing the inadmissibility of fees in the review of final sentences.
\n– 06\/05\/2014
\nSentence of the TC that declares unconstitutional the imposition of judicial fees by the Generalitat of Catalonia.
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