15:42 Fri 19.04.24 | |
Advocates should be fined for identifying themselves with clients – draft |
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With this in mind, the UNBA Committee on Information Policy and Media Relations has prepared a draft Law «On Amendments to the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses to Establish Liability for Violation of the Guarantees of Practice of Law». It is noted that the problem of identifying a lawyer with a client has become particularly acute with a sharp increase in the number of criminal proceedings related to the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, as well as the consideration of cases involving representatives of the aggressor state and their accomplices. The document proposes to introduce a new administrative offense in the Code of Administrative Offenses that encroaches on the established order of governance and to establish penalties for its commission:
The UNBA believes that cases of identification of a lawyer with a client should be considered by judges of district, city, city or city district courts (Article 221 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), and reports on these offenses should be drawn up by the heads of regional bar councils or authorized members of these councils (clauses 9-1, part 1, Article 255 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The draft law with the relevant justification was sent to Volodymyr Vatras, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Organization and Activities of the Bar, Legal Aid Bodies of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy. |
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