Legal advice collective of lawyers

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The legal information lawyer collective association runs a legal advice center in Zurich-Aussersihl .

Club activity

The legal information lawyers' collective has existed as an association since 1981 and emerged from the legal collective founded in 1975. The association operates an open legal advice center at Kernstrasse 8/10 in Zurich-Aussersihl for almost all areas of law without prior notification. A half-hour consultation hour costs a flat rate of 70 francs , including a phone call and (short) letter if required. The idea behind it: competent and committed help from practicing lawyers, for all those looking for law, regardless of their origin and social class - thanks to comparatively very low tariffs.

history

The original legal collective was founded in 1975 by the lawyers Susanne Leuzinger-Naef , Edmund Schönenberger, Bernard Rambert and the secretary Claudia Bislin. The structure and objectives corresponded to the spirit of the political left at the time: the same wages for the secretariat as the lawyers, effective legal representation of the "weak against the strong", open legal advice without prior notice at very moderate prices in addition to the traditional lawyer in order not to build up any fear of the threshold . After only a few weeks, the original collective had to be expanded with new lawyers due to the strong demand; six years after it was founded, it had grown to eleven lawyers. The countless inquiries due to the youth unrest of the 80s finally showed the limits of the previous structure. An expansion was necessary, which is why the previous collective and colleagues from their environment founded an association in 1981 with the “legal information lawyers' collective”. From then on, around 22 lawyers (today around 35) advised in rotation for an almost symbolic fee. Almost all members of the legal advice lawyers' collective are also members of the democratic lawyers in Switzerland . Since 2003 the “Legal Advice Lawyers Collective®” has been registered as a trademark.

The association in the field of view of the state security

The collective came again and again into the focus of state security because of its originally very left-wing location. The fishing scandal revealed that many files had been created about the original collective of lawyers and the later association. But also the extremism report of the Federal Council of August 24, 2004 still falsely stated that the legal information lawyers' collective had originated in 1981 from the so-called Red Aid or the Committee against Solitary Detention. In response to a complaint by the association, the Federal Data Protection and Public Information Commission ordered the respondent (the Federal Police Office) to be instructed to take the necessary steps for the requested corrections. The Federal Supreme Court confirmed this decision. The report has been corrected accordingly.

Activities of the members

Lawyers from the original collective of lawyers and the legal advice collective of lawyers had a particularly significant impact on the development of criminal defense in Switzerland. In its anniversary year 2011, the legal advice lawyers' collective gave the only Swiss criminal law guide for laypeople Criminal investigation - what to do? already out in the fifth edition. It is consistently based on the rights of the defense and explains how best to behave in a criminal investigation. When it was first published in 1978, the author Barbara Hug was fined under disciplinary law for editing the brochure at the time. At that time the publication of such a guideline was viewed as improper for a lawyer. Lawyers of the legal advice lawyers' collective provoked an important decision of principle by the Federal Supreme Court in the early 1980s, in which the role of criminal defense was clarified. Members of the collective of lawyers also initiated the Zurich “Criminal Defense On Call”. From the ranks of the collective of lawyers, a number of recognized specialized lawyers (especially in the areas of families, labor law, social security law and migration law, as well as representation of victims in addition to criminal defense) emerged. Other former active members later made careers in justice and politics: Examples are the federal judge Susanne Leuzinger-Naef , the Zurich cassation judges Doris Farner-Schmidhauser and Matthias Brunner, the Zurich administrative judge Peter A. Sträuli, the National Councilor Daniel Vischer and the councilors Hanspeter Uster (Zug ) and Regine Aeppli (Zurich) mentioned.

literature

  • Stephan Bernard: The long march to the institution. In: Plea. 1/2011, p. 12 ff.
  • Stephan Bernard: The Zurich lawyer collective: “The term 'terrorist lawyers' was almost a trademark”. In: Forum Law. 1/2012, pp. 28–30 ( online ; PDF; 230 kB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.anwaltskollektiv.ch as well as the information from the association's secretary Regula Howald from February 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Edmund Schönenberger is also the founder of the PSYCHEX association which, for people interned in a psychiatric clinic, carries out the detention procedures according to Art. 5 No. 4 ECHR in motion.
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Joris , The common "pot" - the ideological heart of the collective, in: Hebeisen / Joris / Zimmermann (eds.), Zurich 1968, p. 157 ff.
  4. ^ Marianne Berna, Die Wandlung, in TAM 42/81, p. 44 ff .; see. also the portrait of today's lawyer Claude Hentz, who worked for many years as the general secretary of the association and had a decisive influence on it, in: We want everything, and subito, also available online ( Memento des original from May 15, 2003 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swix.ch
  5. ↑ cf. Members of the legal information lawyers' collective [1] and the democratic lawyers of Switzerland Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.djs-jds.ch
  6. ↑ cf. Federal Institute for Intellectual Property [2]
  7. ↑ a b Stephan Bernard, The Long March to the Institution, Plädoyer 1/2011, p. 12 ff. As well as the information from the association's president Martin Jäggi from February 4, 2011.
  8. ↑ a b Extremism report (PDF; 934 kB) admin.ch. August 25, 2004. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  9. ^ Judgment of December 28, 2006, No. 18/05.
  10. ↑ Federal Supreme Court judgment of March 26, 2007 (1A.28 / 2007).
  11. ^ Verlag Edition 8, ISBN 978-3-85990-161-2 .
  12. ↑ BGE 106 Ia 105. See also Stephan Bernard, The Long March to Institution, Plädoyer 1/2011.
  13. ↑ See the portrait of Claude Hentz ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swix.ch
  14. ↑ Stephan Bernard, The Long March to the Institution, Plädoyer 1/2011, p. 12 ff. As well as the information from the association's secretary Regula Howald from February 4, 2011.