Question follow-through · 63539

Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the timely ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, signed by the UK in May 2025; and what a

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
3 Jul 2025
Answer
3 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the timely ratification and implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, signed by the UK in May 2025; and what a

  2. 3 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    I am delighted that the UK was an early signatory to the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer, which was signed in Luxembourg on 14 May 2025. Throughout the Convention’s development, the Ministry of Justice worked cl...

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