lawyers fees

[yeslehc]

help, Is there a government set amount that lawyers can charge for writing up a contract for the sale of a property

[Carol]

there are govt set amounts for everything (and its amazing how many different chargeable tasks lawyers can attribute to writing one contract!). Ask the lawyer to show you the tariff or get the agent to do it as part fo their fee and get the lawyer to check it which should be cheaper

[yeslehc]

thanks carol, but is there anywhere online I can check these rates

[Carol]

I found this: www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Croatia1.htm
The Croatian Bar Association was organized in 1929, based on an Act on Barristers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia along with seven other bar associations. The Bar Association is an independent organization that promotes practice of law as an independent occupation and protects the rights of all of its members. Independence of the Croatian Bar Association is mostly reflected in the fact that it decides on its own tariff rates which includes attorneys' fees in Croatia. As a self-governed body, Croatian Bar Association closely monitors the work of all attorneys in Croatia and imposes and enforces disciplinary actions against them if a need for it arises. Croatian Bar Association is a member of Union Internationale Des Avocats.

Today, the Bar has 3689 members and 1661 law trainees. The candidates are applicants to the Bar that graduated law school but do not possess sufficient knowledge to practice law. In order to become full fledged members, candidates have to complete three years of apprenticeship as a paralegal in a solicitor’s office, four years of practice working in courts system, or five years of practice as a company lawyer and pass a bar examination. The Bar has its representation in all major cities in Croatia.

Presently, the legal profession in the Republic of Croatia is regulated by Legal Profession Act - Official Gazette no. 9 / 94 of 27 January 1994. which Act has been alternated in 2008 – Official Gazette no. 117/08 of 26 September 2008., and by Code of ethics which establishes the principles and rules that lawyers and lawyer trainees are obliged to respect in law practice. Also there is a special Act which deals with free legal aid for people in need (Official gazette no. 62/08 of 30 May 2008.)
Practice of law in Croatia is only allowed to individuals who have Croatian citizenship and who are enrolled in the Croatian Bar Association. This means that foreigners have no legal right to represent parties before the Croatian courts and other Government bodies. Only in the proceedings before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Croatia with an international element, the parties may be represented by attorneys who are enrolled in the directory of bar associations in other countries.

Upon Croatia’s entry into the EU, attorneys from other member countries within the EU will be allowed to attain their independent law offices pending their completion of certain conditions. This will place them on equal ground with all other law offices in Croatia.
Koturaska 53/2
10 000 Zagreb
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
www.hok-cba.hr/Default.aspx

So I guess you might find them by looking up the law concerned at the official gazette

[Carol]

This may be it:-
www.hok-cba.hr/Default.aspx?sec=93

[Madgolfer]

Ive just read through that carol and it seems quite complicated on first viewing. Too hot to read properly today, maybe tonight. ;D

[yeslehc]

Hi carol and madgolfer, I quite agree, what is a point ?

[Carol]

look at the last page... one point is 10 kn