The amendment of the lawyer’s tariff

Since 1^st of July 2014 the amendment of the regulation No. 177/1996 Col., on fees and remuneration of lawyers for the provision of legal services (the lawyer´s tariff) is effective. On the bases of the amendment special provision about reimbursement of costs of judicial proceedings was included. The judicial proceedings have to fulfill these conditions:The judicial proceeding was initiated by a motion filed on the same sample repeatedly by the same complainant in cases factual and legal similar and at the same time the subject of the proceeding is financial fulfillment, which value does not exceed CZK 50.000. The rate for such each legal service is calculated according to the special provision. In the provision the rate is set so that, the tariff values up to CZK 10.000 is for each legal service the amount of CZK 200, over CZK 10.000 the amount of CZK 300 and over CZK 30.000 the amount of CZK 500.

The amendment further regulates the rate remuneration for the initial advice with client including the acceptance and preparation of his representation and for the writing of the motion for initiating of proceedings in the execution of the decision and compensation of expenditures. The rate for each legal service is in amount of CZK 100.

The amendment was incorporated into the lawyer´s tariff according to the Ministry of justice due to not getting more into debts especially of so called social week persons. In this context it is necessary to add that the amount of court fee was not reduced.