What Is A Juriste?

[Tonyf]

I met an immobilier in Laval yesterday who told me proudly that he was a Juriste.  I nodded in admiration, but what exactly is a Juriste and what does he do?

[Piprob]

I think it means someone who serves on a jury or a formal 'panel' of some kind - a conclusion you have probably come to yourself! Exactly what kind of office this is, who knows?

 

[Dick Smith]

Isn't a juriste a lawyer? - i.e. one who practices jurisprudence. A juror is un juré.

[Miki]

I think Dick is probably nearer the answer.

The way I have read it on these things, I think that it is a person who is more of a legal expert, I suppose an avocat would fit the bill but not neccessarily, also it can be someone who often assists or makes changes in legal rulings. I read that it was "jurists" who were responsible over many years of changing human rights bills, not just here but in other countries. I only know this much as it was a question posed many years ago in a book I was reading, funny, I knew then it might come in handy years later !

 

[Boiling a frog]

You're right Miki A juriste is someone who is legally qualified and include Notaires,Advocats,Housierrs (sorry about that spelling) and the people who change legal rulings cant remember the name for them.

[Dick Smith]

So, in fact, a Juriste is the same as a jurist?