Traduction de «plaideur » (Français → Anglais) :

4. Firmly believes that a common minimum standard relating to procedural safeguards of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union will ensure that any individual present within the territory of a Member State (irrespective of his or her nationality and situation) is entitled to assistance from and representation by a lawyer and/or, where appropriate, a procurator (a professional practitioner who, in Spain, France and Portugal represents a party before the courts), from the moment when, as a suspect of complicity in crime, he or she is placed under arrest, taken into custody or charged with an offence by ...[+++] a public authority appropriately empowered to do so, and that such assistance or representation is provided free of charge if the suspect or defendant has insufficient means to pay for it and the provision of such services is required in the interests of justice; the technical defence of suspects and defendants shall be compulsory and indefeasible at every stage and level of criminal proceedings; considers that the right to legal assistance should embrace, at every stage and all tiers of the proceedings, the complete confidentiality of contacts between the defence lawyer and the suspect or defendant, the presence of the defence lawyer each time the suspect or defendant is questioned and his right to put questions both to the suspect or defendant and to any witnesses, and the right of the defence lawyer to submit evidence in exoneration;

4. Firmly believes that a minimum common standard relating to procedural safeguards of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union (hereinafter 'minimum common standard') will ensure that any individual present within the territory of a Member State (irrespective of his or her nationality and situation) is entitled to assistance from and representation by a lawyer and/or, where appropriate, a procurator (a professional practitioner who, in Spain, France and Portugal represents a party before the courts), from the moment when, as either perpetrator or accomplice, he or she is charged with an offence by a ...[+++]public authority (either police or judicial) and that such assistance or representation is provided free of charge if the suspect or defendant has insufficient means to pay for it and the provision of such services is required in the interests of justice;

5. Firmly believes that a common minimum standard relating to procedural safeguards of suspects and defendants in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union (hereinafter 'common minimum standard) will ensure that any individual present within the territory of a Member State (irrespective of his or her nationality and situation) is entitled to assistance from and representation by a lawyer and / or, where appropriate, a procurator (a professional practitioner who, in Spain, France and Portugal represents a party before the courts), from the moment when, as a suspect of complicity in crime, he or she is placed under arrest, taken i ...[+++]nto custody or charged with an offence by a public authority appropriately empowered to do so, and that such assistance or representation is provided free of charge if the suspect or defendant has insufficient means to pay for it and the provision of such services is required in the interests of justice; the technical defence of suspects and defendants shall be compulsory and indefeasible at every stage and level of criminal proceedings; considers that the right to legal assistance should embrace, at every stage and all tiers of the proceedings, the complete confidentiality of contacts between the defence lawyer and the suspect or defendant, the presence of the defence lawyer each time the suspect or defendant is questioned and his right to put questions both to the suspect or defendant and to any witnesses, and the right of the defence lawyer to submit evidence in exoneration;

The principle that the losing party should meet the costs should not be applied without exception, but the possibility should remain in certain cases for the ruling on costs to be made conditional on whether the party has acted recklessly.

The definition of eligible costs related to the cross-border nature of the dispute needs to be clearer and should include more flexibility with regard to the attendance of the litigant or their witnesses before the forum Court as this will not always be mandatory in every legal system, but can often be critical to the outcome of the case.

Civil law litigation within the Department of Justice is basically organized along linguistic lines because the Department of Justice's Crown prosecutors who plead in court are also subject to a very onerous system which is heavily weighted towards civil law, and, when a person subject to trial chooses to have their trial in French, the file will be given to a French-speaking prosecutor, who will work with French legal texts, conduct his or her defence or pleading in French, and who will have the support of a French-speaking team.