Since its foundation in 1997 the ECBA (European Criminal Bar Association) has become the pre-eminent independent organisation of specialist defence lawyers in all Council of Europe countries.

This section of our website contains contact details of individual practitioners who confirm that they are specialist criminal defence practitioners.

 

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The ECBA is very pleased to announce that a ECBA Handbook on the EAW for Defence Lawyers has been published on the following website: 
http://handbook.ecba-eaw.org
 

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The European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers (EFCL) is a sub-association of the ECBA.

On 12 October 2020 the College of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office adopted its Internal Rules, published in the Official Journal on 21.01.2021 (OJ C 22/4). The ECBA has examined these rules and elaborated notes.  The notes were sent to the European Chief Prosecutor, Laura Kövesi, by letter of 26 February 2021. Thursday, 18 March 2021, the ECBA held its first official meeting with EPPO representatives. Read more.

The ECBA has launched a Working Group in order to discuss the use of remote video-technologies in criminal cases and has drafted an European Criminal Bar Association Statement of Principles on the use of Video-Conferencing in Criminal Cases in a Post-Covid-19 World. The statement has been officially launched at our Spring Conference in Rome, on the 12th September, during a panel dedicated to the subject.

Interviews were held at the ECBA conference in Rome on 12 September 2020. You will hear comments and feedback on the ECBA and the conference.

 

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The ECBA is pleased to present the Roadmap 2020. After the Directives following the Stockholm Programme of 2009 further procedural safeguards in criminal proceedings are not yet on the political agenda of EU institutions and politicians.