Deontology and Solicitorship History

Learning Results

To evaluate the psychological and social profile of the student with the purpose to
assess if the student possesses the minimum necessary ethical and social to the
performance of the forensic profession the one that if candidate with the conclusion of
the present Course.
Awareness of student for the disciplinary and criminal liability who can derive from “a
not deontological” exercise of the solicitor profession (Solicitadoria).

Program

1. The values to the profession of solicitor.
2 – The Code of Ethics of the solicitor profession.
3. Deontologicalduties.
4. Distinction and relationship with the remaining forensic professions.
5. The historical evolution of the solicitor profession.
6. The birth of the Chamber of Solicitors.
7. To be solicitor in century XXI.
8. The forms of the exercise of the solicitor profession.
9. The solicitor and other forensic professions.
10. The legal nature of the Chamber of Solicitors.
11. The organic, territorial structure and competences of the Chamber of Solicitors.
12. The solicitors relationship with the Chamber of Solicitors.
13. Conditions of access and registration in the Chamber of Solicitors.
14. Type of incapacities.
15. Definition and identification of the typical acts of the solicitors.
16. Conditions and limitations to the exercise of the activity of solicitor.
17.The exercise of the solicitor profession for foreigners.
18. Solicitors from countries of the European Union.

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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Solicitadoria, Secção de Textos, ISCAC, Coimbra, 2010-2011.
– SILVA RODRIGUES, B., O Estatuto (da Câmara) dos Solicitadores (e Agentes de
Execução), Anotado e Comentado, Legislação e Regulamentação Complementares,
Quid Juris – Sociedade Editora, Lisboa, 2010.
– SILVA RODRIGUES, B., O Estatuto dos Solicitadores, Anotado e Comentado,
Distribuição: Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2008.
– ARNAUT, António, Estatuto da Ordem dos Advogados, Anotado, 12.ª Edição, Coimbra
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– ARNAUT, António, Iniciação à advocacia, História – Deontologia, Questões práticas,
10.ª edição Revista, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra, 2009: (1-214).