[TimorLesteStudies] Fwd: [list] JSMP :New Rules for Timor's Lawyers

[Bu V. E. Wilson]

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>   > New Rules for Timor’s Lawyers
  > Press Release 
  > 30 September 2008
   
  > The private lawyers’ statute recently passed by Timor-Leste’s National Parliament creates a new regulatory framework for the governance of the legal profession.
   
  > Under the new law, a process of formal accreditation is established, in line with a regime of practical training. An enforceable code of conduct is also outlined.
   
  > Most interestingly, lawyers are required to collaborate toward the betterment of the legal system, and to protest human rights violations and other miscarriages of justice.
   
  > JSMP contends that this legislative obligation is a powerful gesture, and that an independent legal community is imperative in safeguarding democratic institutions.
   
  > Unfortunately, the law seems to entrench a number of obstacles to effective legal practice, through its positions on education, courtroom protocol and language policy.
   
  > When the law comes into full effect, prospective lawyers will be required to pass a fifteen month training program at the government Judicial Training Centre (JTC).
   
  > Of the four universities currently teaching a law degree in Timor-Leste, only one has currently been accredited such that its graduates will be eligible for the JTC.
   
  > With many students soon to graduate, the limited number of places available for the JTC program is also of concern. The current intake numbers only sixteen.
   
  > JSMP believes that if Timor’s already short-staffed courts are to benefit from an influx of new lawyers, training and legal curricula must be urgently brought into line.
   
  > International lawyers from other civil law systems, such as Portugal, will find it easier to register. Care will need to be taken to ensure local lawyers are not disadvantaged.
   
  > Lawyers, under the statute, must be fluent in one only of Timor’s official languages. The JTC’s exclusive use of Portuguese, however, suggests an institutional preference.
   
  > Courts in Timor-Leste can be confusing places - the use of professional attire such as robes, made compulsory by this law, could make legal process all the more alienating.
   
  > The onus will, in part, be on lawyers to resist those trappings that elevate the prestige of the profession at the expense of justice, and of their new social mandate.
   
  > JSMP maintains, though, that support will be needed from government, donors and civil society to assist lawyers in playing their crucial role in Timor’s development.
   
  > For further information please contact: 
  > Roberto da Costa Pacheco 
  > Legal Research Coordinator
  > Email : bebeto at jsmp.minihub.org   
  > No landline : 3323883
  >    
     
   
  > Undang-Undang Baru Untuk Para Pengacara Timor-Leste
  > Siaran Pers 
  > 30 September 2008
   
  > Undang-undang tentang pengacara swasta yang baru-baru ini disetujui oleh Parlemen Nasional Timor Leste menciptakan kerangka baru untuk mengatur profesi hukum.
   
  > Berdasarkan undang-undang baru tersebut, sebuah proses akreditasi formal telah ditetapkan, sesuai dengan program latihan praktis. Ini termasuk juga kode tingkah laku yang dapat diterapkan.
   
  > Yang paling menarik, para pengacara harus bekerja sama untuk meningkatkan sistem hukum, dan mengajukan keberatan atas pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan kekeliruan hukum lainnya.
   
  > JSMP mengatakan bahwa ketentuan hukum tersebut mengirim pesan yang dahsyat, dan juga menunjukkan bahwa sangat penting untuk mempunyai kalangan praktisi hukum yang mandiri untuk melindungi lembaga-lembaga demokratis.
   
  > Sayangnya, undang-undang tersebut rupanya menetapkan sejumlah hal yang dapat menghalangi praktek hukum yang efektif, melalui ketentuan spesifik terhadap pendidikan, protokol di ruangan pengadilan dan kebijakan tentang pemakaian bahasa.
   
  > Apabila undang-undang ini diberlakukan, para calon pengacara harus lulus program latihan yang berlangsung selama 15 bulan di Pusat Latihan Yudisial milik pemerintah (JTC).
   
  > Dari keempat universitas yang pada saat ini mengajarkan sarjana hukum di Timor-Leste, hanya satu universitas telah diberi akreditasi supaya para tamatannya memenuhi persyaratan untuk belajar di JTC.
   
  > Tidak lama lagi banyak mahasiswa akan tamat, sehingga ada keprihatinan tentang jumlah posisi yang tersedia dalam program JTC. Pada saat ini JTC hanya akan menerima 16 orang.
   
  > JSMP berpikir bahwa agar pengadilan-pengadilan Timor-Leste dapat memperoleh manfaat dari pemasukan pengacara-pengacara baru, maka latihan dan kurikulum hukum harus secepatnya disesuaikan.
   
  > Akan lebih mudah untuk mendaftarkan diri bagi pengacara internasional dari sistem lainnya yang menggunakan hukum civil. Perlu menjamin bahwa pengacara lokal tidak dirugikan dalam proses ini.
   
  > Berdasarkan undang-undang tersebut, para pengacara harus lancar berbicara salah satu bahasa resmi Timor Leste. Namun, JTC secara ekslusif menggunakan bahasa Portugis yang menyarankan bahwa lembaga tersebut mempunyai preferensi untuk bahasa ini.
   
  > Pengadilan-pengadilan di Timor-Leste dapat menimbulkan kebingungan – penggunaan pakaian profesional seperti jubah, yang diwajibkan dalam undang-undang ini, dapat membuat proses hukum lebih membingungkan lagi.
   
  > Para pengacara akan sebagian bertanggungjawab untuk menghindari hal-hal yang meningkatkan gengsi profesi sambil mengorbankan keadilan serta mandat sosialnya yang baru ditetapkan.
   
  > Namun, JSMP berpendapat bahwa pemerintah, para pendonor dan masyarakat sivil harus memberi dukungan kepada pengacara supaya mereka dapat menjalankan peranan penting dalam pengembangan Timor Leste.
   
   
  > Untuk informasi lebih lanjut hubungi
  > Roberto da Costa Pacheco
  > Kordinator Peneliti Hukum, JSMP
  > Tlp: 3323883
  > Email: bebeto at jsmp.minihub.org 
  >    
     
  > Lei Foun Konaba Advogadu Timor-Leste
  > Komunikadu Imprensa
  > 30 Setembru 2008
   
  > Lei kona ba advogadu privadu ne’ebe mak foin lalais ne’e hetan aprovasaun husi Parlamentu Nasional Timor Leste estabelese kna’ar foun hodi regula profeisaun legal ninian.
   
  > Bazeia ba lei foun ne’e, prosesu akreditasaun formal ida estabelese tiha ona, tuir programa treinamentu praktikal. Ne’e inklui mos aplikasun ba kodigu da konduta (etika profesional).
   
  > Asuntu interesante, advogadus sira presiza iha kolaborasaun diak hodi hasae/forteleza sistema judisiariu, protesta violasaun direitus humanus no manifesta dilatoriu lei nian.
   
  > JSMP konsidera katak lei advogadu privadu ne’e hanesan fo mensajem bo’ot, no hatudu katak iha importansia bo’ot atu iha kalangan praktisi hukum ne’ebe imparsial hodi proteje entidades demokratikus.
   
  > Infelismente, lei ne’e regula buat balun ne’ebe bele satan netik/dezafius bo’ot ba pratika lei ne’ebe efetivu, liu husi regras espesifiku ba edukasaun, protokolu iha fora husi sala tribunal no politika linguazen.
   
  > Karik lei ne’e sei aplika/vigor, kandidatu advogadu tenki passa ezame husi program formasaun/treinamentu ho durasaun fulan 15 iha Centru Formasaun Juridiku ne’ebe governu estabelese (CFJ).
   
  > Husi universidade 4 ne’ebe loke fakuldade direitu iha TL, so iha universidade ida deit maka akreditadu hodi licensiadu hirak ne’e prense kondisun atu ba tuir formsaun iha CFJ.
   
  > La kleur tan estudantes barak mak remata sira nia estudu, tanba ida ne’e iha lamentasaun barak kona ba pozisaun ne’ebe loke ba programa CFJ. Agora dadauk CFJ bele simu deit kandidatu nain 16.
   
  > JSMP hanoin katak hodi tribunais TL bele hetan beneficiaria husi advogadus foun, entaun treinamentu/formasaun no kurikulu legal tenki halo similaridade lalais.
   
  > Tanba fasil liu advogadu internasional husi nasaun nasaun civilista sira hodi regista an atu pratika iha TL. Presiza garantia katak advogadu nasional sei la hetan prejuijo husi prosesu ida ne’e.
   
  > Bazeia ba lei refere, advogadu sira tenki hatene koalia lingua official TL nian ida deit. Maibe, CFJ ekslusivamente uza lingua Portugues hodi prefere katak CFJ iha preferensia ba lingua ne’e.
   
  > Tribunais iha Timor-Leste sei hamosu duvidas/konfuzaun - uzo roupa profesional hanesan toga, ne’ebe tuir lei ne’e obrigatoriu, sei halo prosesu legal konfuzaun liu tan.
   
  > Advogadus balun sei toma responsabilidades hodi evita/hases an husi hahalok ne’ebe hamosu sensualidae profesun no iha parte seluk devia justisa no mandatu sosial ne’e be foin termina.
   
  > Maibe, JSMP iha opiniaun katak governu, doador no sosiedade civil sempre fo suporta ba advogadu hodi sira halao sira nia k’nar importante ne’e hodi alkansa sistema judisiariu iha TL.
   
  > Atu hetan informasaun liutan bele kontaktu
   
  > Roberto da Costa Pacheco
  > Koordenador Peskizador Juridiku
  > Email : bebeto at jsmp.minihub.org
  > No tlp: 3323883
   
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