White Paper on Attorneys 2013
Part 1
Current Situation of Attorneys and Other Legal Professions
Current Situation of Attorneys and Other Legal Professions
Chapter 1 Population of Attorneys … 1
I. | The Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the Number of Attorneys |
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II. | Constitution According to Age |
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Chapter 2 Change in the Number of Attorneys, etc. … 3
I. | The Status of the Number of Applicants for Law Schools and Enrollment of People |
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II. | The Status of Successful Bar Examination Candidates |
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1. Pass Rate of New Bar Examination |
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III. | The Number of Legal Apprentices who Have Completed Legal Training per Chosen Profession |
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IV. | Comparison of the Total Number of Lawyers, Judges, and Public Prosecutors with those of Foreign Countries |
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1. The Number of People per Lawyer (Cross-country Comparison) |
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2. The Number of People per Judge (Cross-country Comparison) |
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3. The Number of People per Public Prosecutor (Cross-country Comparison) |
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4. The Number of People per Legal Professional (Cross-country Comparison) |
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V. | Changes in Populations of Other Legal Professions |
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Chapter 3 Mergers of Law Offices and the Current Situation of Legal Professional Corporations … 13
I. | The Number of Attorneys in Law Offices |
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II. | Current Situation of Legal Professional Corporations |
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1.The Number of LPCs |
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2.Size of Legal Professional Corporations |
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Chapter 4 Current Situation of Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi ("Registered Foreign Lawyers") … 17
I. | Changes in the Number of Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi (1988-2013) |
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II. | Registration of Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyers) |
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III. | Situations regarding Alliances with Foreign Law Joint Enterprises |
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IV. | The Number of Foreign Lawyers Employed by Attorneys and Legal Professional Corporations |
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1.By Nationality |
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2.By Home Jurisdiction |
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V. | World Law Firms and Their Entry into the Japanese Market |
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Part 2
Activities of Attorneys
Activities of Attorneys
Chapter 1 Criminal Advocacy Activities … 24
Section 1 Duty Attorney and Court-Appointed Attorney Systems |
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I. | Outline of Duty Attorney and Court-Appointed Attorney Systems |
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II. | Current Situations of Duty Attorneys (Toban Bengoshi) |
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III. | Changes in the Number of Duty Attorney Requested Cases, Appointed Cass and Criminal Suspect Defense Aid Cases |
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Section 2 The Status of Defense Attorneys Involvement in the Overall Criminal Cases |
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I. | The Status of Court-Appointed Attorney Contracts, and the Number of Defendants with Court-Appointed Attorneys |
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II. | Changes in the Percentage of Retaining Criminal Defense Counsel (after Indictment) (Court-Appointed and Privately Retained) at District Courts |
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III. | Changes in the Percentage of Retaining Criminal Defense Counsel (after Indictment) (Court-Appointed and Privately Retained) at Summary Courts |
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IV. | Changes in the Percentage of Defendants Retaining Criminal Defense Counsel (after Indictment) (Court-Appointed and Privately Retained) at High Courts |
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Section 3 Defense Activities in Juvenile Cases |
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I. | Changes in the Number of Juvenile Probation Cases (at Family Courts) and the Proportion of Cases in which Attendants are Present |
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II. | Changes in the Number of Juvenile Probation Cases (at Family Courts) with Appointed Attendants (by type) |
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Section 4 The Lay Judge System |
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I. | Cases Determined by Lay Judges |
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II. | Actual Practice of Lay Judge Trials |
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1. The Number of Persons Who Have Been Subjected to Saiban-in (Lay Judges) Trials and Whose Trials Have Been Finalized |
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2. Comparison of the Average Period Taken for Court Deliberations and the Average Period of the Pretrial Conference Procedure (by confession and denial), etc. |
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Chapter 2 Activities in Civil and Other Lawsuits … 38
Section 1 Civil Lawsuits |
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I. | Attorneys’ Involvement in Ordinary Civil Lawsuits before District Courts |
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II. | Attorneys’ Involvement in Ordinary Civil Lawsuits before Summary Courts |
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III. | Changes in the Percentage of Appointed Attorneys in Ordinary Second Instance Trials (before High Courts) |
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Section 2 JFBA’s Assistance for Disaster Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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I. | JFBA’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident |
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II. | Statistical Results of Free Legal Consultations in Regard to the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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III. | JFBA’s Response to Double Loan Payment Issues |
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IV. | JFBA’s Response to the Nuclear Power Plant Accident, etc. |
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Chapter 3 Expansion of Attorneys’ Activities … 47
I. | Current Situation of In-house Attorneys |
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1. Changes in the Number of In-house Attorneys |
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2. Public Officers with Fixed Terms |
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II. | Diet Member and Head of Local Governments Registered as Attorneys |
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Part 3
Activities of the JFBA and Local Bar Associations
Activities of the JFBA and Local Bar Associations
Chapter 1 Autonomy of Attorneys … 50
Section 1 Complaints and Dispute Conciliations |
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I. | Complaints against Attorneys |
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II. | Dispute Conciliation |
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1. Number of Dispute Conciliation Cases Newly Received |
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2. Handling of Dispute Conciliation Cases (All Bar Associations) – 2003 to 2012 – |
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Section 2 Disciplinary System for Attorneys |
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I. | Summary of the Disciplinary System for Attorneys |
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1.Request for Discipline |
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2.Investigation by Disciplinary Enforcement Committee |
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3.Examination by Disciplinary Actions Committee |
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4.Filing of an Objection, etc. |
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5.Public Notice by the Official Gazette, etc. |
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II. | Operation of the Disciplinary System |
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1.Cases Handled by Disciplinary Enforcement Committees of Bar Associations and the JFBA |
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(1)Bar Associations |
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(2)JFBA |
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2.Processing Cases at Disciplinary Actions Committees of Bar Associations and the JFBA |
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(1)Bar Associations |
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(2)JFBA |
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i.Objections |
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ii.Appeals |
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3.Processing Cases at the JFBA Board of Discipline Review |
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Section 3 Disciplinary Actions and Disciplinary Procedure |
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I. | Statistics Regarding Disciplinary Actions |
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1.Changes in the Number of Newly Accepted Requests for Disciplinary Actions (All Bar Associations) –1996 to 2012- |
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2.Number of Requests for Disciplinary Action and Details of Handling the Requests (All Bar Associations) |
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3.Percentage of Disciplinary Actions (All Bar Associations) |
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(1)Percentage of Cases with Disciplinary Actions out of All Requests for Disciplinary Actions |
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(2)Changes in Percentage of Members with Disciplinary Actions |
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II. | The Flow and Current Situation of Disciplinary Procedure |
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1.The Disciplinary System |
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Chapter 2 The JFBA's Activities involving Human Rights Relief … 62
I. | Appeal System Procedures for Human Rights Relief |
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II. | The Number of Human Rights Relief Cases (by Category) |
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Chapter 3 International Activities of the JFBA … 65
Section 1 International Human Rights Activities |
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I. | Activities at the United Nations (UN) |
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II. | Activities Related to the UN and UN Human Rights Bodies |
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Section 2 International Exchange Activities |
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I. | Membership of International Organizations |
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II. | MOUs with Overseas Bar Organizations |
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Section 3 International Cooperation |
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I. | JICA Long-Term Experts Achievement |
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II. | Past and Current JFBA Assistance Projects for Bar Associations in Developing Countries (by Country) |
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Section 4 Overseas Visiting Fellow Program and Support for Working in International Organizations |
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I. | JFBA Overseas Visiting Fellow Program |
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1.Past Overseas Visiting Fellows |
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II. | Support for JFBA Members Interested in Working in International Organizations |
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III. | Other Support |
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