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Challenge, approach and results.
In the diploma thesis, we analyse and identify changes in the method and legal definition of the valuation of legal services in the period from 2005 to 2011. The basic finding of the diploma thesis is that the regulation under the 2003 legal tariff was more favourable for lawyers as providers of legal services, whilst the regulation of the valuation of legal services under ZOdvT is fundamentally more favourable for clients and less favourable for lawyers. Despite the identified change in the valuation of legal services, which is less favourable for lawyers under ZOdvT than under the previous regulation based on the 2003 Legal Tariff, the number of lawyers is increasing, and the prescribed valuation of legal services is therefore not the decisive reason for engaging in legal practice.
Solution and Method
In the diploma thesis, we analyse and identify changes in the method and legal definition of the valuation of legal services in the period from 2005 to 2011. In the period from 2005 to 2011, there were substantial changes in the billing of legal services, as in 2005 the 2003 legal tariff was in force, which was adopted by the Bar Association of Slovenia as a professional organisation, whilst on 1 January 2009 the Legal Tariff Act (ZOdvT) came into force, and with it the valuation of legal services was taken over by the state or the legislator.
The system of valuation of legal services is fundamentally different under each regulation in the period under review. Thus, under the 2003 legal tariff, each individual legal service was valued separately, whilst under ZOdvT there is in principle a single amount for the value of the service regardless of the number of acts themselves (written submissions or attendance at court hearings). By presenting the valuation of legal services under each regulation, it is shown that the method of valuation of legal services has an impact on the price of legal services and thus on the financial operations of lawyers themselves, as well as an impact on users of legal services in court proceedings.
Results
The basic finding of the diploma thesis is that the regulation under the 2003 legal tariff was more favourable for lawyers as providers of legal services, whilst the regulation of the valuation of legal services under ZOdvT is fundamentally more favourable for clients and less favourable for lawyers. Despite the identified change in the valuation of legal services, which is less favourable for lawyers under ZOdvT than under the previous regulation based on the 2003 Legal Tariff, the number of lawyers is increasing, and the prescribed valuation of legal services is therefore not the decisive reason for engaging in legal practice.
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