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Types of legal professions
Within the different legal and judicial systems of the Member States of the European Union (EU), there is a wide range of legal professions such as lawyers, notaries, judges, prosecutors and judicial officers. Members of legal professions do not hold the same titles in all Member States, and their role and status can vary considerably from one Member State to another.
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Lawyers
Find a lawyer throughout the EU based on their name, location, spoken language, practice area...
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Notaries
Find a notary throughout the EU based on their location, spoken language and/or name.
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Legal translators/interpreters
If you need to understand and be understood during a hearing held in another Member State or if you need a legal translation of a contract or other legal document, you may wish to find an interpreter or a legal translator.
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Find an expert
Information on finding an expert in EU countries.
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Forensic experts
Information on finding a forensic expert in EU countries
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Mediators
If you decide to use mediation you would meet with a mediator – an independent, neutral third party – who can help you talk things through and reach agreement.
Family matters & inheritance
- Inheritance
- Divorce and legal separation
- Property in marriage & civil partnerships
- Parental responsibility - child custody and contact rights
- Moving/settling abroad with children
- Parental child abduction
- Family maintenance
- Cross-border placement of a child including foster family
- Children from Ukraine – civil judicial cooperation
Court procedures
- Civil cases
- Criminal cases
- Judicial auctions
- Videoconferencing
Taking legal action
- Mediation
- Legal aid
- Online forms
- European Payment Order forms
- Small claims forms
- Brussels IIa Regulation - Matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility forms
- Judgments in civil and commercial matters forms
- Legal aid forms
- Maintenance obligations forms
- European enforcement order forms
- European Account Preservation Order forms
- Compensation to crime victims forms
- Public documents forms
- European Certificate of Succession
- Mutual recognition of protection measures forms
- Where and how
- Legal systems - EU and national
- European Judicial Atlas in civil matters
- European payment order
- Small claims
- Judgments in civil and commercial matters - Brussels I Regulation
- Brussels I Regulation (recast)
- Legal aid
- Maintenance obligations
- Brussels IIa Regulation - Matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility
- Brussels IIb Regulation - Matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility (recast)
- Serving documents
- Serving documents (recast)
- Taking evidence
- Taking evidence (recast)
- European enforcement order
- Mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters
- Divorce and legal separation
- Mediation
- Succession
- European Account Preservation Order
- Compensation to crime victims
- Matters of matrimonial property regimes
- Matters of the property consequences of registered partnerships
- Public documents
Your rights
- Defendants (criminal proceedings)
- Victims of crime
- Fundamental rights
- Public documents
- Protection of vulnerable adults
- Rights of minors in court proceedings
- Access to justice in environmental matters
Legislation and case law
- EU law
- National legislation
- International law
- Publication of official announcements
- Consumer Law Database
- Country
- Enforcement
- Price Indication Directive (98/6)
- Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive (1999/44)
- Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29)
- Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive (2006/114)
- Timeshare Directive (2008/122)
- Injunctions Directive (2009/22)
- Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83)
- Unfair Contract Terms Directive (93/13)
- Package Travel Directive (2015/2302)
- Digital Content Directive
- Sale of goods directive
- Representative actions directive
- Repealed
- Glossaries and translations
- EU case law
- European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
- European Case Law Identifier (ECLI) search engine
- Freedom of movement and other Union citizens’ rights
- National case law
- International case law
Registers - business, insolvency & land
- Business registers – search for a company in the EU
- Business registers in EU countries
- Land registers - EU level
- Land registers in EU countries
- Bankruptcy and insolvency registers
- Beneficial ownership registers interconnection system (BORIS)
- Bankruptcy & insolvency registers - search for insolvent debtors in the EU
Trainings, judicial networks and agencies
- Training of justice professionals
- European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters
- European Judicial Network in criminal matters
- Eurojust
- European Law Institute
- EuroPris