100% this! They are officers of the state! (According to my lawyers before I fired them and went Pro Se).
- Ohhhhh.... I was popular with them Come on
Correct! But herein lies the rub! Former prosecutors or politically connected & privileged lawyers tend to get away with it.
Depends, if the information was accessible for them or should've been without you trying to hide it, then it is not criminal, it is just you owing them money. Even if you didn't report. This is the law in many countries.
I agree on the court order, that makes things more ugly. Did you register your bank account with your own passport or with the UAE residence card? Did your home country know about your UAE residency?
UAE introduced taxation, the issue with extradition was two fold.
To those who want to read more about this, here:
A good point. I'd also guess that at least a part could be an exit tax... (what I consider a pure robbery).
Exactly. The intra-EU differencies are really huge.
I second that.
?? @wellington, could you please elaborate more on that? I consider to be a standard, at least in Europe and Northern America, that your advocate/solicitor etc. must not tell anything to anyone about you and you activity without your consent... So the exact opposite.
I'm also interested in @wellington to expand on this, *BUT*...I know for a fact (personal knowledge, as I witnessed it) that it happens every day and twice on Sundays.
Let your imagination run wild If you have a lawyer with morals and that abides by such rules you should drop him immedietaly.
it depends where your court order is coming from. Both me and some of my friends and clients have "tax dues" in some EU countries such as CZ, SK, RO, BG, PL, LT, EE, LV, AT and none of those countries weere able to collect any dues, bring anyone back or block their passports even after guilty verdict in court under criminal investigation. We're talking about millions of Euro, multiple people, various businesses. However the investigations were always related to caroussels, tax evasion etc. and never anything harsh like narcotics.
Well, yes. (I have looked at a glance at the information you referred to.) The world is going really crazy...I'm also interested in @wellington to expand on this, *BUT*...I know for a fact (personal knowledge, as I witnessed it) that it happens every day and twice on Sundays.
In theory, you are correct, but in practice, things are quite different.
Lawyers have always trumpeted this: Lawyers as Officers of the Court.
and the reality synchronizes with their boasting:
Australian defence lawyer named as police informant.
In the US, it is rampant. I have personal experience here. There are several cases on Lexis Nexis and Westlaw where one can read that lawyers surreptitiously record their clients, i.e. the defendants.
Rule 3.7 Lawyer As Witness - Comment
and here:
When Lawyers Testify Against a Client
In Europe, I can only go by what my retired neighbor and former judge told me in the 70s when I was a kid. I have NO experience with this. So, I won't opine.
In Japan, they have this: Japan FTC Proposes New Attorney-Client Privilege Rules for Public Comment
In Latin America?
Should we even discuss China? I hope not
I am happy to see that there are still lawyers with this attitude. (I share this, although being just a consultant – and more or less retired, in addition.)
BTW, this is a really interesting note, @Helkins. I guess that I perhaps understand where are you pointing; but would you mind eventually to elaborate a little bit more? Nevertherless, I am aware that this is OT for this thread ( you can eventually start a new one in Let's Talk forum, or so...).
It corresponds to the information that I heard in the past – but just heard, no direct experience.
I agree with this 100%! I knew, for example, at least 7 in the US (out of meeting thousands in +2 decades). Four have now passed away. RIP. One has been disbarred after losing a jury trial, one got so scared he switched to being an in-house lawyer for a company that does insurance, and only one is practicing in a major law firm in Chicago. The disbarred one and the one still practicing are OFF-the-chain brilliant.
My solution to this is that ALL lawyers inform their clients of the probability of lawyers themselves becoming a target of the state and make their clients watch a video explaining AGAIN to their clients that their own lawyers could become targets of the state once the state realizes that what stands between the state and the client is the lawyer, and if that happens, the clients should be aware/conscious that the lawyers could be cornered and intimidated akin to any unarmed victim would be cornered and vulnerable in a heavily armed Mexican cartel region. Example: American tourists get lost in heavily armed Cartel-dominated territory in Mexico.
Its more about non-crs solutions than non-crs jurisdictions these days.
Problems can indeed follow to other jurisdiction.
Can you give us some examples?
Do you mean they cannot access the funds only in UAE or in other places too? I have little idea why it matters where the order comes from. What difference does it make if an order comes from Germany or from the Czech Republic?
There is some although it's very hard to come by. Thesedays majority of the people are so brainwashed by the state and scared of consequances that they sacrifice their own values.
I wanted to check what they're teaching these days at the university so I signed up to a LLM at a UK uni with a focus on International Tax and Trade Law. What I've experienced so far, talking with the students is that they're there to get a degree and work for good money - that's it. I do understand their point but they don't care about the laws, they don't care about the industry, they just care about that it's sort of well paid compared to others. Not only that but it's full of "snowflakes" that are identifying as that or that, in no world would I want a unstable mentally lawyer to be advising me in any way. If this is the future of the industry then the general population is doomed and courtrooms are gonna be filled with colorful heads. Another thing is, the classes teach about absolutely nothing, have nothing to do with real world problems and put a big pressure on learning about the morality, emotions and ethical conduct. Ethical conduct seemed to be one of the most important courses. During the group projects if your idea is creative and using interantional regulations (or neutral [grey area] solutions) to your benefit and gaining a sort of competitive advantage you're going to be failed. I almost got kicked out of uni for sharing my ideas and "spoiling the youth".
When the governments are starting to go after the lawyers we know that the world is heading into a wrong direction. Everyone wants a peaceful life so it's understandable why majority of weak mentally professionals choose to side with the government.
It's about the interantional influence of respective coutries and their internal legislation regarding taxation and debt. Germany is strong internationally and goes after people hard, Czech Republic isn't - not only that but the legislators in some of those Eastern European countries do tax avoidance and evasion themselves so they're not going to be closing the loopholes and making a precedent against their interest.
