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Free legal advice? Now also by phone. From 15 January, you can get help with a short legal question via a central phone number. Through this Free Lawyers Advice Line, you are directly connected to a certified lawyer. With this new initiative, we at advocaat.be want to make legal assistance even more accessible for everyone.

Are you a guardian, supporter, teacher, counsellor, or trusted adult working with young people going through an asylum procedure? This video offers an accessible insight into the appeal procedure tailored to young people, and is therefore a valuable tool.

Are you interested in the deontology and disciplinary law of the legal profession? Then apply to join the Supervisory Board as a non-lawyer.

Since 1 September 2025, anyone in Belgium can submit his/her conflicts in civil, corporate and social matters to the Chamber for Amicable Settlement (KMS). The KMS is an alternative to a traditional court case. Here, parties solve problems by talking to each other. The judge guides the conversation, but you keep the reins in your own hands.

We request the Supreme Judicial Council (HRJ) to investigate the judicial order to physically remove, with the help of police, two lawyers from the courtroom. This happened on Thursday 18 September 2025 during the major drug trial Kriva Rochem, in which drug boss Flor Bressers, among others, is on trial.

Journalists can submit their work for the triennial Press Prize of Advocaat.be until 7 November 2025. The prize, good for €7,500, awards a journalistic production that brings law and the workings of justice to the attention of the general public in a clear, accessible and quality manner.