Post-Consultation Summary Report: Modernizing Legal Profession Governance and Proposed Amendments to the Attorney Regulation Act

Here are the compiled materials following the Attorney Regulation Act amendment consultation meeting held on May 4, 2016. Interested friends are welcome to refer to them.

Brief Post-Meeting Conclusion

During the meeting, bar associations were requested to provide the following information for subsequent discussions on the Attorney Regulation Act amendment:

1. Please disclose the financial status and accounting statements of each bar association.
2. Please have local bar associations evaluate what their core operations are, why the existence of the bar association is necessary, and why its operations cannot be taken over by other bar associations.
3. For bar associations supporting a single-membership system, please evaluate how bar association fees would be adjusted if another bar association were to take over their operations.

Questionnaire Report

The questionnaire report can be viewed here, with a total of 2,002 respondents, among whom 1,606 were lawyers.

https://jrf-tw.typeform.com/report/Yml8Yk/VJdK

To view the detailed questionnaire content, we have de-identified it and published it here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DV82_iqyH6ew9m1Pq3z9SN5Aa0nG-E94wns7vwIZuEs/pubhtml

Bar association membership fee data:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e4wP_SU8f87j45jZTsA1RkSapnwxUPZEzqy1DXLnShk/pubhtml

Related Discussions

We have compiled some of the questionnaire responses and discussion forum answers into a presentation:

Meeting Records

• Meeting collaborative notes: https://hackpad.com/IFN5R4BCPBP
• Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgtWEd-Rb70
• Chatroom messages: http://bit.ly/1T7hbe9
• Sayit transcript: http://bit.ly/1VQCOTA
• Moderator's notes: http://bit.ly/25rURVJ
• Ministry of Justice materials: Including presentation slides and the draft amendment, which are still being requested.