Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/23/2017

Subject: The Court affirmed that Article 101(1) TFEU, read in conjunction with Directive 77/249/EEC to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, by virtue of which individuals and sole traders obtain reimbursement of lawyers’ remuneration, ordered by a national court, if they have been defended by a legal adviser

Parties: CHEZ Elektro Bulgaria

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 15 Freedom to provide services

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