Translation of "Avocat spécial " (French → English) :

If, for some special reason, the President considers that any Judge or Advocate-General should not sit or make submissions in a particular case, he shall notify him accordingly.

If, for some special reason, any Judge or Advocate-General considers that he should not take part in the judgment or examination of a particular case, he shall so inform the President.

E. whereas the Tunisian Parliament adopted in early May a law establishing a law school (Institut supérieur des avocats), as provided for in the funding agreement, without taking into account the results of consultations with the association of barristers, and noting the executive’s consequent control over the training and selection of future Tunisian lawyers; recalling the more or less systematic harassment of Tunisian lawyers working to achieve an independent judiciary and the detention, for more than a year, of Maître Abbou, a lawyer; noting with interest that despite numerous requests to be allowed to visit, the UN ...[+++]Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

E. whereas, in this connection, the law establishing a Higher Institute for Lawyers, as provided for under the agreement, was adopted by the Tunisian Parliament without any account being taken of the outcome of the consultations with the Lawyers' Association, and whereas this will give the government control over the training and selection of Tunisian lawyers in the future; whereas Tunisian lawyers working for the independence of the judiciary have been systematically harassed and whereas the lawyer Mr Abbou has been detained for more than one year now; noting with interest that, in spite of several requests for a visit, the UN Special Rapporteur on the I ...[+++]ndependence of Judges and Lawyers has still not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

E. whereas the law creating a Higher Institute for Lawyers, envisaged in that convention, was adopted by the Tunisian Parliament at the beginning of May 2006 without the outcome of the consultations with the Lawyers' Association having been taken into account, and noting that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers has still not received an invitation from the Tunisian Government,

The consular official could assist in liasing with the family of the accused, with lawyers, with any potential witnesses, with NGOs that offer assistance to prisoners abroad and if necessary in organising special procedures such as appeals in the newspapers etc.