But it all depends on the definition of incident

Lawyers are angry, very angry: too, it is too much. Just accountants have closed the Congress, which has stated, for the first time, their ambitions in the social area, the three most important organizations of lawyers of the Paris Bar, the Conference of the Presidents and the national Council of the bars just send a mail virulent to the Board of Governors of the order of certified public accountants (CSOEC). "Gradually and tirelessly, the profession of Chartered Accountant appears to want to claim the exercise of the right, in direct competition with the lawyers", they argue in a release. "I am very surprised, said Jean-Pierre Alix, the President of the CSOEC, our Congress was designed to stop the leaders of our countries, our social model, not to compete with lawyers," said before adding: "what interests me, is that the profession which I represent has the hearing". "I am not sure the distinction is clear to the public, and it is certainly not intended to be", reply Paul - Albert Iweins, President of the national Council of the bars in an interview to the "echoes".

This sounds very like a resurgence of the war of the "law", which led the two professions to face the courts for years. The Act of December 1990 introduced a perimeter of law for the legal professions. At the same time, article 22 of the Ordinance of 1945, which rule the accounting profession, stipulates that the accountant can give tax, legal and social consultations insofar as they are a "subordinate" of the main accounting mission. But it all depends on the definition of "incident". Two regulated professions know that if they remain on their core business the judiciary for lawyers, auditors for accountants they will wither. Both are therefore looking for a long time of new opportunities in a market of the Council already highly competitive and where the consultants of all kinds, they also installed.

Why react as violently Is the war of the perimeter of the law reopened

I hope not. But we have to react with force: behind accumulation of the public positions, the campaign of advertising and the theme of the Congress (accountants), there is a clear claim of the accounting profession to main title of the law. It would be many naive for believing in a simple coincidence. The Charter we have just signed with accountants in June, to harmonize our labour relations, will therefore served no Accountants have the right to make the right to an ancillary, but act and we their dispute to the principal.

But where you put the cursor

It is very simple: when a contractor has an accounting operation to and incidentally it must decide problems of law there is no concern, his accountant may do so. However, there is a real problem when it comes to see an accountant for a question of law.

But, precisely, they do not speak of social law Council but social Council...

I am not sure the distinction is clear to the public, and it is certainly not intended to be. Council of the order of certified public accountants (CSOEC), how elliptical, said: "We do not tax law or social law, but the tax and the social." What is the difference to the public A Union of accountants, in any case, not lies not behind the words. It is illegal, they know very well, and it is contrary to all the agreements that we have moved.

Is all of this not in fact a market problem that is increasingly shrinking for the regulated professions

Of course, no one seeks to conceal. But if the lawyers are confined to legal aid in divorce, it must be said! At that time, the profession is destined to disappear. It can live only if it funds in the area of the right of the company. It is neither criminal nor the right of the family that can allow our profession to its mission of public service below costs to ensure access to the right of the poor. And the State cannot let another profession regulated also estimable it but which is not subject to the same obligations in future impinge on its markets.