Only lawyers registered with the Bar Association are entitled to the title of lawyer and are entitled to establish law societies. Admission to the Bar Association is reserved to Malagasy nationals or nationals from a State granting reciprocity to Malagasy nationals having completed training in Madagascar. Foreign lawyers [registered with a foreign bar association] may be admitted to represent the parties and to plead in the courts subject to reciprocity and with the authorization of the Minister of Justice after consulting the President of the Bar and the Attorney General at the Court of Justice. This authorization is not required if they are associated with a lawyer registered with the Bar Association of Madagascar.
"OF THE WHITEBOARD
Article 18. Only persons registered on the roll of the Order are entitled to the title of lawyer.
Article 19. The lawyers registered on the roll of the Order can represent the parties before all the courts of Madagascar.
Article 20. Lawyers are entered on the roll according to their rank of seniority determined by the date of admission to this roll. No one can be registered on the roll if he does not actually practice and if he does not produce the training certificate provided for in Article 30.
Are exempted from internship:
- professors and associate professors of law faculties,
- former magistrates of courts and tribunals having exercised jurisdictional functions for more than five years, chief clerks and senior executives of the judiciary having exercised the functions of chief clerks for ten (10) years, if they meet the conditions provided for in at1ic1e 23-1 to 3.
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Article 23. Can only be admitted to the internship those people who can prove that they meet the following conditions:
- be at least twenty-one (21) years old;
- have Malagasy nationality for more than five (5) years in accordance with article 38 of the Nationality Code or be a national of a State granting reciprocity to Malagasy nationals;
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Article 44. Lawyers registered with a foreign bar with a reciprocal agreement may only be admitted to represent the parties and to plead with the authorization of the Minister of Justice after consulting the President of the Bar and the Attorney General at the Court of Justice. call from Antananarivo. However, this authorization is not required if they represent the parties and plead while being constituted at the same time as a lawyer registered on the roll of the Bar Association of Madagascar.
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Article 48. Association between lawyers is authorized. The Rules of Procedure determine the terms and conditions.
Each association must be evidenced in writing. A copy of the contract as well as, where applicable, amending contracts are submitted to the Council of the Order.
The Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Antananarivo may request communication from the President of the Bar.
The table mentions, next to the name of each lawyer who is a member of an association, that of his colleague or colleagues with whom he is associated.
Each of the associate lawyers remains responsible vis-à-vis their clients. These lawyers cannot assist or represent parties with different interests.
The contract of association must provide that the rights of each of the partners in the association are personal to him and cannot be assigned.[...]" (LAW N° 2001-006 organizing the profession of Lawyer [google translation])
LAW N° 2001-006 organizing the profession of Lawyer [google translation]
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