摘要：Lawyers are integrated in the justice system. Their professional qualification is definitely influencing the quality of the public service of justice. Following the acts of European Union on long life learning, the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe issued regulation stimulating its members to promote measures for professional upgrading of lawyers and sanctions for those who do not follow long life learning programmes. The quality of judicial assistance is also improved by high standard requirements for entering the bar. The article presents the evolution of continuous training for lawyers in Europe highlighting at the same time the importance of the concept in relation to the characteristics of the lawyer’s activity as a liberal profession and the development of such characteristics. It also emphasises the role of all state powers in sustaining the efforts of the Romanian Bar Association for high professional qualification of its members. Some court decisions that are contrary to such efforts are also discussed.
