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Dr hab. Hanna Wolska
ORCID: 0000-0002-9806-6336

Doctor of Law, Assistant Professor at the Chair of Public Economic Law and Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. Author of several dozen scientific publications in the field of public economic law. Manager of international and national scientific grants financed, inter alia, by the National Science Centre (NCN), the Polish-German Foundation for Science (PNFN), the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Attorney-at-law and member of the Scientific Council of the National Centre for Nuclear Research.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2024.6.6
JEL: K23, K29

The subject of this study is the problem of admissibility of holding property interests in organizational units dedicated to providing legal assistance by persons who do not have the right to practice one of the legal professions. Bearing in mind the solutions adopted in Polish and German law, an answer will also be given to the question of whether restrictions relating to the prohibition of participation of persons who do not have the right to perform the professional activity of providing legal assistance may constitute a violation of the freedoms of the internal market, including, in particular, the freedoms of capital transfer, provision of services and entrepreneurship. The above issue is in connection with a preliminary question referred by the Bavarian Bar Court to the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2023, concerning a possible violation of European law through the application of the prohibition on ownership of third-party shares within the structures for the practice of the legal profession.

Keywords: attorneys-at-law; prohibition of ownership; legal professions; provision of legal aid