Boulogne bar role for british lawyer

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GERARD BARRON HAS BEEN ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PAS-DE-CALAIS BAR, REPRESENTING MORE THAN 100 LOCAL LAWYERS THE HONORARY British consul in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Gerard Barron, has been


elected vice-president of the Pas-de-Calais bar, representing more than 100 local lawyers. In what is believed to be a first for a British lawyer in France, Mr Barron was elected by his


peers for a two-year term as vice-bâtonnier. The court district, which runs along the Pas-de-Calais coast down to the border with the Somme, includes a central court, three smaller tribunaux


d’instance, two employment tribunals (conseil de prud'hommes), a commercial court and a social security tribunal. “As far as I am aware, I am the first British-born avocat and the


first practising solicitor to be elected as either bâtonnier or vice-bâtonnier of a French bar,” Mr Barron said. The bâtonnier and vice-bâtonnier oversee the bar council and deal with any


disputes that arise between a lawyer and a client, or between two lawyers.