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Independent Monitoring of Lawyers and Notaries

Today, lawyers, notaries and bailiffs are made only under supervision as a complaint is filed against them. That change Hirsch Ballin. He must be an independent regulator with enough powers to “vigorously” to preventive action. The supervisor shall at all times to retrieve documents on their own initiative. Notaries and lawyers can not then rely on their confidentiality.

Read Article 7 of the regulation of professional conduct for notaries, as on the website of the Royal Notarial Professional Association, the more it is the duty of confidentiality. And read the rules for lawyers in that area.

According to the Minister an independent supervisory body within the Dutch Bar control to keep the lawyers. When notaries and bailiffs, the Financial Supervisory Agency, which monitors compliance with financial rules, have to keep on monitoring the compliance of other (non-financial) regulations.

Besides the disciplinary review is there, Hirsch Ballin stressed. The person who is complaints about notaries, bailiffs and lawyers continues to evaluate and possibly impose a penalty. Though the minister that the supervisor may affect some violations independently by means of an administrative penalty or fine under a load. In the latter, a supervisor of the offender an obligation to undo a violation. If those do not meet those requirements, he must pay a penalty.