Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12)
Code of Organization and Civil Procedure (Cap. 12), article 924
924. If the advocate or legal procurator assigned to the person
admitted to the benefit of legal aid, without good cause, refuses to
undertake or continue the case, it shall be lawful for the Civil
Court, First Hall, to sentence such advocate or legal procurator to
pay the expenses necessary for the suit, or order him to undertake
or continue the case under pain of interdiction from the exercise of
his profession for a period not exceeding one month.
Duties of advocate
or legal procurator.
Amended by:
XXIII.1971.52.
Substituted by:
XXIV.1995.339.
Amended by:
XXII.2005.70;
VII.2007.25.
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