It would look like the poisoned cake unwittingly offered by Asterix to Queen Cleopatra.
Since last June, the National Bar Council (CNB) has been working on the tricky question of the wearing of the veil by lawyers who plead before the Court.
A year ago, the Court of Cassation incidentally led the profession down this slippery slope of law.
On March 2, she responded to a student lawyer from the Lille Bar who was offended by the fact that the local Bar Association had decided that "
the lawyer may not wear with the robe either decoration
or sign
ostensibly showing a belonging or a religious, philosophical, community or political opinion
”.
"
In the absence of a specific legislative provision and in the absence of a regulatory provision enacted by the CNB, it falls within the remit of a council of the order to regulate the wearing and use of the costume of its profession
, "she said. implicitly referring the CNB to its responsibility to harmonize at the national level…
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