Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 May / corr. Trend K. Zarbaliyeva/ The new vacancies of lawyers will be advertised in Azerbaijan so as to increase the number of lawyers.
The vacancies will be advertised for the Bar in the second half of 2008, Azer Tagiyev, the chairman of the Bar said to Trend .
Nearly 241 lawyers were admitted to the Bar as a result of the vacancy advertisement in 2007. The number of lawyers in Azerbaijan has reached 800 after the admission of new candidates.
The Ago Group said in its last report on Azerbaijan that the juridical service offered to the population is not satisfactory.
According to Tagiyev, there has been 3 times rise in the number of lawyers in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan is a country with a small number of lawyers among the other European countries.
Activities of the lawyer are regulated by the Law on Lawyers and Their Activities, and Charter of the Bar.
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