12 April 2021
01 Ramadhaan 1442
عربي
The applicant who request to be enrolled in the roll of practicing lawyers shall firstly register his name in the roll of lawyer trainees in the case where the conditions of registration in any other rolls attached thereto are not fulfilled, shall successfully complete the term of six month training at the Center for Judicial and Legal Studies, in addition to eighteen months at a practicing lawyer’s office who has engaged in law practice for at least five years, or has worked at the judiciary, public prosecution or any other legal work at any Ministry, government agency, public entity or institution. The lawyer trainee may, within the period of enrollment at the Center for Judicial and Legal Studies, receive a monthly reward, the value and entitlement conditions of such reward shall be determined by a decree of the Council of Ministers, and shall be paid by the Center.
The Qatari faculty members who obtained a doctorate degree and teach law at a recognized university or those who worked in the judiciary, public prosecution or any other legal work in any of the ministries, government agencies, public bodies or institutions, shall be exempted from the term of training. The term of training shall be reduced insomuch as the term of engagement in any of such work referred hereinto. The Committee shall issue a decision on the exemption and reduction of training term.
The practicing lawyers set forth under Article (20) hereof shall accept the lawyer trainees who applied for training at their offices, and such lawyers shall supervise this training and provide trainees with sufficient experience. If the lawyer trainee failed to find a lawyer to train at his office, the Committee shall issue a decision enrolling him at an office of one of the lawyers referred hereinto under Preceding Paragraph. Such lawyer may not, without an excuse accepted by the Committee, refuse the enrollment of such lawyer trainee at his office.
The lawyer trainee may not in his name plead, but rather on behalf of the lawyer who supervises his training, and may not sign the statements of claim, submissions and papers submitted to the courts. The lawyer trainee may not plead before the Court of First Instance except after a year as from the date of his registration. The lawyer trainee may on behalf of such lawyer appear before the authorities provided for under Article (3) hereof.
The lawyer trainee may not open an office in his name during the term of training. In case where he is acting in violation thereof, the Committee shall issue an order to close this office, without prejudice to the prosecution of such offending lawyer criminally or disciplinarily. The lawyer trainee may make a grievance against such closing Orderto the Committee, in accordance with the provisions of Article (29) hereof.