Debates “Do Lawyers Need a Monopoly?” Text Version

On September 19, the “Tomorrow’s Lawyer” NGO, together with the Yurydychna Gazeta Weekly Newspaper and Dead Lawyers Society, held a debate entitled “Do Lawyers Need a Monopoly?”.

Team in support of the Monopoly: lawyers Arsen Milyutin and Vitaliy Vlasyuk

Team against the Monopoly: lawyer Igor Golovan and judge of the Supreme Court Arkadiy Buschenko

Tomorrow’ Lawyer recorded the arguments of speakers. Almost without taking it out of context. Enjoy!

While you still have a chance to watch the full video:

Full transcript of the debates is available at the Ukrainian web-page.

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