Ordre des Avocats au Barreau de Paris v Klopp

Subject Matter

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY — Freedom of establishment — Membership of profession — German advocate with practice in Germany — Advocate qualifying as “avocat” in France — Application for membership of Paris Bar — French law and rules of Paris Bar restricting avccats to one place of practice — Membership of Paris Bar refused while advocate maintaining practice in Germany — No relevant directives under Treaty — Whether application of national restriction incompatible with right of establishment — EEC Treaty (Cmnd 5179-II), art 52

[1985] QB 711; [1985] 2 WLR 1058