Amendment to the Turkish Bars Association Regulation on the Advertising Ban
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This regulation creates a five-member center to monitor alleged breaches of the advertising ban by lawyers across written, audio, visual, and online media. The center will identify possible violations, report to the Turkish Bars Association, and track the process with local bar associations. Lawyers and law firms should expect more structured oversight of promotional content, especially online. Local bar associations must share their decisions on whether to open a disciplinary process with the new center and may be asked to provide statistics on related cases.
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Key Changes
- Creates a five-member Advertising Ban Violations Monitoring Center
- Allows the center to act on its own or after receiving a report of a possible advertising ban breach
- Requires local bar associations to send their decisions to the center and allows the center to request statistics on related disciplinary cases
Obligations
What this law requires
Establish a five-member Advertising Ban Violations Monitoring Center to identify alleged advertising-ban violations occurring through written, audio, visual, and online communication channels, report to the Turkish Bars Association, and follow the process before local bar associations.
Appoint members of the Advertising Ban Violations Monitoring Center for terms not exceeding two years, taking into account their competence in attorney disciplinary law.
Ensure that members appointed to the Advertising Ban Violations Monitoring Center have not received any disciplinary sanction.
Forward each alleged advertising-ban violation that the Center becomes aware of, either ex officio or through a notification, to the relevant local bar association.
Send the decision on whether to open a disciplinary prosecution following a notification to the Advertising Ban Violations Monitoring Center, in addition to other relevant parties.