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he Azarbaijan Lawyers’ Institute’s Physiognomy in Yesterday & Today:

hough with the evidence of Iran’s contemporary history, the Azarbaijan people have stepped at first than the rest of Iran’s provinces in forming of the social & civil organizations & structures likely due to the geographical situations & as a result the cultural & civilization acts with the Europe, but to form of the lawyers’ institute of the administration of justice, the Azarbaijan has settled on the 2nd standing after the Tehran province. Of course, this had no relation with the settlement of the Ministry of Justice & the rest of ministries in Tehran, & having the certain estate from the point of member’s numbers to establish of the lawyers’ institute as the main legal agent to form the lawyers’ institute.


n the basis of available records, the Azerbaijan lawyers’ institute has been set up in 1947 under  the Ministry of Justice, & the 1st elections of the Board of Directors have done at the same time, & as result the Ministry of Justice has assigned the directorship of the institute.
his process has been continued to confirmation of the liberty paper of the justice’s lawyers’ institute of Iran on Feb.26th, 1952. Finally, in 1953 the 1st elections of the lawyers’ institute have been done on the basis of the liberty paper, & Mr.ESHAQ PISHVA has been elected as the chair of the Azarbaijan lawyers’ institute. That must be said, Mr.SAYED MORTEZA HODA had undertaken to the directorship of the institute at first official formation in 1957, & now both of the last-mentioned people passed away.


o several years ago, the Iran’s proxy community was focused on 3 institutes as Head Office, Azarbaijan, Fars & Ports, & the legal authority to issue proxy permit was the above-mentioned institutes.
ut in 70th decade, & following of the growth of law graduates, & as a result, the increase of lawyers of the Justice Dept., & with recommendation of the liberty paper of the lawyers’ institute, also the other provinces by reason of getting the legal certain estate from the point of having lawyer, established the other institutes. At the same decade, the West Azarbaijan province because of having 60 lawyers in the domain of own province, that this condition had been emphasized legally so as to set up the lawyers’ institute of province has taken action to establish the lawyers’ one, hereby this province has been left from the Azarbaijan institute, & from that time, the Azarbaijan institute has worked as the Eastern Azarbaijan lawyers’ institute.


f course, this classification was not on the basis of occupation limitation, but also the whole lawyers of Iran have permission to activate in their profession with observing the legal standards in general.

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