CASE COMMENTS: PUBLIC ACTIONS – FRANCE – FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY – FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY – REGULATED PROFESSION – REGULATED TARIFF – YARDSTICK COMPETITION

Regulated tariffs: The French Competition Authority delivers a favorable opinion on a decree on lawyer’s postulation fees (Lawyer’s postulation fees)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Act No. 2015-990 of 6 August 2015 on growth, activity and equal economic opportunities extended the territorial jurisdiction of lawyers in respect of applications by allowing them to apply before all the high courts within the jurisdiction of the court of appeal in which they have established their professional residence as well as before the latter, and abolished the corresponding regulated tariff. The application is now remunerated by fees fixed by mutual agreement between the lawyer and his client. However, an exception is made for four matters listed in Article L. 444-1 C. com. These are:

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  • Strasbourg Institute of Political Sciences

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Jean-Philippe Kovar, Regulated tariffs: The French Competition Authority delivers a favorable opinion on a decree on lawyer’s postulation fees (Lawyer’s postulation fees), 27 March 2017, Concurrences N° 4-2017, Art. N° 85142, pp. 189-190

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