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Lawyer Tariff in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Autor: Rechtsanwalt Alma Prnjavorac - Rechtsanwältin
Lawyer Tariff in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina there are two lawyer tariffs in effect, for the territory of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina applies the Lawyer Tariff of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina “Official Gazette of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, No.: 22/04 dated April 24, 2004 and 24/04 dated May 8, 2004, and for the territory of the Republic of Srpska, Tariff for Remuneration and Compensation of Costs for Services of Lawyers of the Republic of Srpska.
Essential difference between these lawyer tariffs is indiscernible.
Due to enormous importance of understanding and due to frequent questions as to how the lawyer remuneration is calculated, in the following few sentences we will explain the application of the Lawyer Tariff before courts in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (formal name The Tariff for Remuneration and Compensation of Costs for Services of Lawyers) as well as before courts in the Republic of Srpska, BiH, (formal name: The Tariff for Remuneration and Compensation of Costs for Services of Lawyers of the Republic of Srpska).
The basic and most relevant thing each client should know is that a lawyer calculates his/her remuneration in accordance with the Lawyer Tariff if not otherwise regulated by “a written contract” with the client. It is important to point out that the Lawyer Tariff sees fax messages, e-mail messages and correspondence as “a written contract” if they contain relevant elements.
Therefore, if you conclude a contract with a lawyer, you can agree upon remuneration based on spent hours, and at the same time determine the remuneration per hour, while the lawyer has the duty to give the assessment of overall hours that will be needed to complete a certain action. If a lawyer cannot offer a precise assessment of hours, you can ask for the above limit of remuneration to determine that “the remuneration will not exceed a certain budget/sum”. Thus, even before the lawyer completes an action and issues the bill, you have a clear concept and concrete “offer”, and the lawyer should not add any further remunerations and compensations.
Another way of negotiating remuneration/compensation is by determining a fixed sum for a certain action without determining the number of hours or remuneration per hour. And in case a client demands that certain actions be performed in longer intervals (a few months), then it is possible to agree upon, so called, “monthly flat rate for lawyer’s services”, basically meaning a fixed monthly sum for performing several actions within a month.
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