Section 3: Special provisions applicable to auctioneers, bailiffs, notaries and lawyers

Before any settlement, lawyers are required to provide the parties, even if they do not request it, with a document, known as a “statement of costs”, setting out a detailed account of the emoluments, costs and disbursements for which they are liable. Statements of costs must show separately and distinctly emoluments, advances paid, costs and disbursements, with mention of: 1° For emoluments: a) The lines in Table 6 annexed to…

When, pursuant to Article R. 444-15, the lawyer exercises his right to withhold documents that he has drawn up, documents that have been given to him to support the case or securities that he has obtained in the course of the proceedings, the communication of these documents or securities to any public or ministerial officer acting on behalf of the party must always be made on a provisional basis, when…

Lawyers are prohibited, under penalty of disciplinary sanctions, from sharing their emoluments with a third party.