Moroccan lawyers address open letter to the President of the International Union of Lawyers

The President of the National Association of Lawyers of Morocco, Mohamed Lahbib Benchikh, has addressed an open letter to Fernando Hernández Gómez, President of the International Union of Lawyers (UIA), at its headquarters in Paris. In the letter, he raises concerns over what he views as a setback to the independence of the legal profession, in light of the draft law regulating the practice of law in the Kingdom.