The clash between the Bar Chamber and judicial decision-making has entered a decisive phase. The Chamber’s General Council convened this Thursday after the Administrative Court of Appeal accepted the request to secure the lawsuit regarding the suspension of the lawyers’ boycott of hearings at the Special Court.
The meeting began after the intervention of the Administrative Court of Appeal
According to publicly released information, the General Council meeting began immediately after the decision of the Administrative Court of Appeal, which accepted the request to secure the lawsuit in relation to the boycott declared for court hearings at GJKKO.
This development places the Bar Chamber before a court ruling that directly affects a collective measure undertaken by it, while attention has shifted to how this decision will be interpreted and implemented by the lawyers’ governing bodies.
Media allowed at opening, discussions held behind closed doors
The opening of the meeting has been announced as accessible to the media, but the discussion portion will be held behind closed doors. This means the real debate over the boycott and its consequences will not be public in real time.
At the end of the meeting, the Council is expected to issue a decision on whether or not to continue the boycott, a position now conditioned by the ruling of the Administrative Court of Appeal.
Haxhia signals the end of the boycott
The head of the Bar Chamber, Maksim Haxhia, has stated that the institution he leads will abide by the court’s decision. According to him, this approach points toward the end of the boycott.
In his statement, Haxhia stressed that the Council is faced with a decision of the Administrative Court of Appeal that has suspended the course of the boycott and, on that basis, its closure is expected to be declared.
The issue shifts from a professional clash to an institutional obligation
With this development, the matter no longer remains only a conflict between the lawyers’ position and the functioning of GJKKO, but becomes a test of the relationship between the profession’s self-governance and the obligation to obey a court decision.
If the Council formalizes the end of the boycott, then one of the most debated episodes of recent weeks in the justice system is expected to close under the pressure of the Appeal’s ruling, not as the product of an internal consensual solution.
The General Council’s final decision is expected to clarify whether the boycott of hearings at GJKKO will officially come to an end.
Until then, the public stance of the head of the Chamber leaves little room for interpretation about the direction this meeting is taking.