Specialist committees and working groups made up of experts appointed by the national delegations discuss and develop policy papers on a wide range of areas affecting the European legal profession.
Access to Justice Committee
This committee deals with a wide range of issues, such as collective redress, legal aid, alternative dispute resolution, and in general any EU initiative which might have an impact on access to justice for citizens.
Members
SCHEUBA
Elisabeth
Austria
BULE
Indra
BUYSSENS
Herman
Belgium
JACQUES
Jean-Pierre
Belgium
LAURENT
Véronique
Belgium
PIETERS
Stefan
Belgium
DOLEZALOVA
Martina
Czech Republic
ROPKOVA
Eva
Czech Republic
MOE THORUP
Camilla
Denmark
HUOT
Aurélia
France
LEPINARD
Anne-Sophie
France
RAVAT-SANDRE
Agnès
France
FUHRMANN
Sabine
Germany
WIDDER
Fabian
Germany
FLOROPOULOU MAKRI
Maria
Greece
KOUTKIAS
Nikolaos
Greece
KOPAR
Bernadett
Hungary
S. SZABO
Peter
Hungary
VOLKMAR
Julia
Ireland
BERTI ARNOALDI VELI
Giovanni
Italy
SALVANESCHI
Laura
Italy
SALADZIUS
Jonas
Lithuania
RAKOCZY
Filip
Poland
TALAGA
Jan
Poland
ROQUE FIGUEIREDO
Lara
Portugal
ESTEVEZ SANZ
Marlen
Spain
MARTINEZ
Marta
Spain
SANGBORN
Johan
Sweden
PRUIS
Jasper
The Netherlands
WESTDIJK
Michele
The Netherlands
WISKERKE
Christel
The Netherlands
DALLING
Ken
United Kingdom
FRUITHOF
Evanna
United Kingdom
ROBINSON
Michael
United Kingdom
COWPER-COLES
Rupert
United-Kingdom
Documents
CCBE Position on the draft Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings and the Commissio...
CCBE Position on abusive litigations targeting journalists and right defenders (10/12/2021)
Training programme for lawyers to assist clients in mediation (06/12/2019)
CCBE-CEPEJ Training programme for lawyers to assist clients in mediation (26/07/2019)
CCBE position on the Proposal for a Directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers and repealing Directive 2009/22/EC ...
Preliminary CCBE comments on the Proposal for a Directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers, and repealing Directiv...
CCBE comments on the ELI ENCJ Consultation Paper on The Relationship between Formal and Informal Justice the Court and Alternative Dispute Resolution (31/03/2017)
CCBE response to the public consultation on the application of Directive 2008/52/EC on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters (11/12/2015)
CCBE comments on the European Commission's Proposal for a regulation amending regulation 861/2007 establishing a European small claims procedure and regulation 1896/20...
CCBE response to the public consultation on the European small claims procedure (18/05/2013)
CCBE comments on the Commission's Proposal for a Directive on Alternative Disputes Resolution(ADR) for consumer disputes and proposal for a Regulation on Online Disput...
CCBE Response to the European Commission's Consultation on Towards a Coherent European Approach to Collective Redress (09/09/2011)
CCBE response to the European Commission's consultation paper on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution as a means to resolve disputes related to commercial transac...
CCBE comments on the Commission' s consultation paper on consumer collective redress (26/06/2009)
CCBE response to the Commission's green paper on consumer collective redress (19/02/2009)
Summary of the CCBE Position on the issue of free choice of lawyers in legal expenses insurance (01/05/2007)
CCBE position on the opening of the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters to the legal professions (15/09/2008)
CCBE response to the Commission's consultation on the consumer collective redress benchmarks (14/03/2008)
CCBE response to the green paper on improving the efficiency of the enforcement of judgments in the EU (01/05/2007)
CCBE position on the proposal for a Directive on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters (01/04/2005)
Summary of provisions of the directive to improve access to justice in cross-border dispute by establishing minimum common rules relating legal aid for such disputes (...
Preliminary CCBE comments on the preliminary draft proposal for a Directive on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters (07/05/2004)
Response of the CCBE to the European Commission's Green Paper on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Civil and Commercial Law of 19/04/2002 (10/10/2002)
CCBE comments relating to the proposal for a Directive to improve access to justice in cross-border disputes by establishing minimum common rules relating to legal aid...
Response of the CCBE to the green paper from the EC on legal aid in civil matters (20/05/2000)
Lettre à la Ministre belge de la justice concernant l'aide juridique (03/07/2012)
Lettre au Premier Ministre belge concernant l'aide juridique (03/07/2012)
The CCBE sounds the alarm bell for justice in Europe (20/05/2020)
The CCBE calls for access to justice for migrants in all EU countries (17/07/2018)