Andorra Bar Association Free Consultations Drop 8% to 473 in 2025

The Andorra Bar Association (CAA) handled 473 free legal consultations last year, marking an 8.33% drop from the 516 recorded in 2024—the second-highest figure in the service's history.

This decline reversed an upward trend that began in 2023, when requests rose to 491 after a 4.85% fall in 2022. The 2025 numbers follow the all-time record of 526 consultations set in 2017, since the service launched in 2007.

Housing-related issues—covering rentals, mortgages, neighbour disputes, insurance, and Saig matters—remained the most common category under "other" queries. These totalled 186, or 39% of all requests, down 4.6% from 2024. Rentals accounted for 16% of consultations, insurance 9%, mortgages and neighbour issues 3% each, corporate and Saig matters 2%, and miscellaneous topics 9%.

Family matters, such as separations, divorces, and child custody, ranked second with 126 cases—a 22.6% decrease from the previous year—making up 27% of the total. Labour disputes, mainly dismissals, rose 16.6% to 84 consultations, or 18%. Claims, often involving unpaid debts, fell 13.4% to 58 (12%), ending two years of growth. CASS-related queries, primarily pensions, stayed flat at 19 (4%).

Offered every Wednesday afternoon with around 200 participating lawyers, the service has attended 8,147 consultations overall. It grew steadily after starting with 352 in 2007, surpassing 400 by 2009, before fluctuations. Expansion was considered in 2014 and 2017 but shelved amid later dips.

CAA officials view the current setup as sufficient to meet public demand, with recent years showing stabilisation after peaks in 2023 and 2024.