The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Validity of Pactum de Quota Litis in Iranian Law with a Brief Comparison with French and Americain law

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Author
abdolrasoul Dayani
Professor of Payame-noor university and Azad central university department of law
10.22106/jlj.2018.33931
Abstract
One of the most important questions concerning the remuneration of the advocates in a civil process is to know if the contribution in requisition or a claim by the attorney is prohibitedby Iranian law or not? It has one of the most involved problemes of several cases in the specialized disciplinary court of advocates in Iran. Although in Iranian law this matter is prohibited, in the American law this contributionis completely legal and not prohibited. In contrast, in French law there are some restrictions to this procedure. This article comes to explaine that this restriction is useless and can induce the attorneys to commit the fraud or shortchange. In addition, it is neither against the Islamic law and Iranian civil law, nor the professionals’ ethics regulations of the advocates. By this reason the Iranian law must be modified toward real and transparent dispositions that can authorize the conclusion of the contracts named in USA by Pactum de quota litis between the attorneys and their clients. This article tends also to analyze a concerned case law.
Keywords
Success Fees
Disciplinary Court
Attorney's Infractions
Contingent Fees
Contributin Contrat
-      دیانی، عبدالرسول، ادله اثبات دعوا در امور مدنی و کیفری، چاپ پنجم، نشر میزان، 1394.
-      ـــــــــــــــ ، حقوق خانواده، چاپ سوم، نشر میزان، 1395.
-      ـــــــــــــــ ، قواعد عمومی قراردادها، چاپ اول، نشر میزان، 1395.
-      سمامی، عبدالله، تعیین حق الوکاله از مدعا به، مطلب بر گرفته از سایت:
http://vokalayeazadandish.com/index.php/samami/te/157-2014-07-03-11-13-05 , last visited: 2016/4/3
-      کاتوزیان، ناصر، حقوق مدنی: عقود اذنی ـ وثیقه‎های دین، شرکت سهامی انتشار با همکاری شرکت بهمن برنا، 1376.
-      Avocats : la convention d’honoraires est désormais obligatoire. Site: http://sosconso.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/09/09/avocats-la-convention-dhonoraires-desormais-obligatoire/Christophe De Backere en Nino De Lathauwer, Contingent.
-      Fees: Beyond the intuitive threat, Jura falconis Jg. 49, 2012-2013, nummer 1, pages 101-12
-      برگرفته از سایت:
https://www.law.kuleuven.be/jura/art/49n1/debackere_delathauwer.pdf
-      JuriSourcing, Honoraires d'avocats: Privilégier un honoraire fixe ou de résultats? Site: http://jurisourcing.com/? p=755.
-      Grosdidier, Pierre, Les avocats aux Etats-Unis, Haynes and Boone, LLP Houston, Texas Le 30 avril 2013. Available at: http://www.haynesboone.com/~/media/files/attorney%20publications/2013/lesavocatsauxetat sunis.ashx
-      Towns, William, Honoraires conditionnels aux États-Unis d’Amérique –égalité de chances pour tous? Available at: http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/fr/2010/01/article_0002.html
The Judiciarys Law Journal
Volume 82, Issue 103
Summer 2019
Pages 75-98

  • Receive Date 23 September 2018
  • First Publish Date 23 September 2018
  • Publish Date 23 September 2018