{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1977-249/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1977-249/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1977/249",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 22 March 1977 to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services (77/249/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1977-249",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the pursuit of activities relating to the representation of a client in legal proceedings, a Member State may require lawyers to whom Article 1 applies:\nto be introduced, in accordance with local rules or customs, to the presiding judge and, where appropriate, to the President of the relevant Bar in the host Member State;\nto work in conjunction with a lawyer who practises before the judicial authority in question and who would, where necessary, be answerable to that authority, or with an ‘avoué’ or ‘procuratore’ practising before it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1977/249/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:45.113874+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}