ECJ The reason for the requirement that the lawyer acting for a party lodge at the Registry a certificate of entitlement to practise before a court of a Member State, which is laid down by Article 44(3) of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance, and which is one of the conditions for the regularity of the application, is to enable the Community court to check compliance with Article 17 of the EEC Statute of the Court of Justice, pursuant to which parties other than Member States must be represented by a lawyer entitled to practise before a court of a Member State. This requirement therefore constitutes an essential procedural requirement, failure to observe which within the time prescribed for the party concerned to put his application in order renders it inadmissible.
Citations:
T-101/92, [1993] EUECJ T-101/92
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
European
Updated: 06 June 2022; Ref: scu.172617