Burgenland Bar Association
The Bar Association Burgenland is the professional organization of the Burgenland established lawyers and trainee lawyers. The Bar Association has its seat in Eisenstadt , where the Regional Court of Eisenstadt is also the highest judicial body in Burgenland. The President of the Burgenland Bar Association is currently Thomas Schreiner.
history
The lawyers in Burgenland only founded their own professional representation in 1988. From 1918 until this point in time, the lawyers were involved in the organization of the “ Bar Association for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland ”.
- See also: History of Burgenland as part of Austria.
organization
The professional representation is a member of the Austrian Bar Association , an association of the bar associations of all Austrian federal states. Organizationally, the Bar Association is a public corporation with the right to autonomous self-administration and limited sovereign powers.
The areas of responsibility of the Burgenland Bar Association range from representing lawyers to assessing laws and drawing up reports to monitoring compliance with professional obligations by means of disciplinary law . The examinations for trainee lawyers and trainee judges are also carried out by the examination commissioners of the Bar Association.
The highest decision-making body is the committee, which is elected by the general assembly of Burgenland lawyers and is chaired by a president and a vice-president. Attached to this are the disciplinary board and the examination commissioners, who are also appointed by the general assembly.
membership
Membership exists for registered lawyers (RA) and trainee lawyers (RAA). The voting rights in the general meeting are unevenly distributed between lawyers and trainee lawyers (approx. 1: 2 - RA: RAA). Associated with membership is the obligation to pay the chamber contribution. An annual average of around 50 to 60 lawyers are admitted in Burgenland. As of November 1, 2013, 59 lawyers were registered in Burgenland. Of all nine Austrian federal states, Burgenland has the lowest number of lawyers registered per inhabitant.
See also
- Bar Association (Austria) (general overview)
Web links
- Burgenland Bar Association (as part of the advertising campaign of the Austrian Bar Association ).
- Association for research into the legal professional history of the members of the Austrian bar associations who were discredited between 1938 and 1945 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The establishment of the Bar Association (Vienna).
- ↑ The Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) has ruled in decision G31 / 2013 et al., V20 / 2013 et al., Item 3.3. That in the case of votes in plenary assemblies, the existing regulation of prospective attorneys on a qualified right to vote and have a say should be permissible, if the different weighting satisfies the objective requirement arising from the principle of equality and is compatible with the democratic principle resulting from Art. 120a and Art. 120c B-VG . The weighting of votes in Section 24 (3) last sentence RAO, however, violates these constitutional requirements, because the fundamental equality of votes inherent in the democratic principle is generally broken, without there being a corresponding objective reason for this and because there is no objective differentiating regulation depending on the subject of the decision and different levels of concern of the respective group of members of the Chamber (e.g. the regulations of the allocation and contribution regulations that only apply to trainee lawyers). If it is a matter of matters in which the trainee lawyers are not particularly affected, it is permissible to provide for different weighting of votes (see also Anwalt Aktuell , 6/13, p. 19 and 7/13, p. 5 , Archived copy ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).
- ↑ There is therefore one lawyer for around 4,860 inhabitants . Mathematically, Vienna has the highest density of lawyers in Austria with 640 residents and around twice as many as the Austrian average (around 1,450 residents). However, the Principality of Liechtenstein is unsurpassed in the German-speaking countries with one lawyer for around 212 residents.
