Amending Certain Provisions of the Law Regulating the Legal Profession No. 8/70 of 11/03/1970 and its Amendments

Type

Law

Number

42

Date of the text

19/02/1991

Official Gazette

published in 1991

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

5

What it provides

This law amends the Bar Profession Organization Law No. 8/70 by repealing several of its articles and replacing them, covering conditions for practising law such as nationality, age, qualifications and good conduct, and the three-year apprenticeship in a lawyer's office and the documents required afterwards.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1991. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.