The Paris Bar wants to encourage few, few reports. An ethical procedure which makes it possible to preserve the anonymity of the victims has been launched.
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Is the most worrying that a lawyer is a victim of ill-treatment or that he does not envisage any approach against his attacker, neither disciplinary nor judicial? The Paris bar has published in its bulletin of April 20 a survey of the 30,000 Parisian lawyers and lawyers on discrimination and harassment, moral or sexual. This consultation has no scientific value, since only 1,154 people responded, no doubt the most concerned by the subject. It nevertheless makes it possible to raise the question of non-recourse by these professionals of law.
If 27 % say they have been victims of discrimination themselves and 38 % victims of harassment, eight in ten “victims” say they do not consider an approach. These results do not show an improvement in relation to those from A study much larger carried out in 2017 and 2018 by the defender of rights to 7,000 lawyers throughout the country.
The reasons invoked to justify this non-recourse to disciplinary or justice bodies appear confusing, on the part of lawyers: “willingness to turn the page”, “insufficient evidence”, “an appeal will be useless”, “fear of reprisals”, etc.
“The fear of reprisals is real”
Women are the first victims of these actions, especially in the event of pregnancy. “In many cases, when a person says they are the victim of moral harassment, we realize when they detail the story that is behind sexist discrimination,” said Laetitia Marchand, a lawyer elected to the Council of the Order and manager with Chloé Belloy of the Harassment and Discrimination Commission of the Bar (called Comhadis).
“The fear of reprisals is real in a profession where a bond of dependence exists when, to start, after an internship in office, you must find a partner who takes you as a collaborator”, notes M Sup> merchant, who recently had a work meeting on sexist discrimination with the defender of rights, Claire Hédon, and La Bâtonnière, Julie Couturier.
For several years, however, successive sticks of this bar with more than 40 % of the country’s lawyers have attacked what looks like a scourge, even if it is of course not the prerogative of this profession liberal. But it was not until 2019 that a temporary ban on exercising was pronounced for the first time against a colleague due to “inappropriate behavior” with regard to a trainee and a Student magistrate.
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