Court lawyers given practice guarantee
Source: Xinhua |
October 10, 2012, Wednesday
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CHINA has tried to provide a legal guarantee for lawyers to practice in courts, according to the white paper.
The current law stipulates that the representation or defense opinions presented in court by a lawyer shall not be subject to legal prosecution so long as they do not compromise national security, defame others or disrupt court order.
These measures have effectively promoted the exercise of the defense function of lawyers, the paper says.
From 2006 to 2011, lawyers provided defense for a total of 2,454,222 cases, an increase of 54.16 percent over 2001 to 2005.
As of the end of 2011, China had 18,200 law firms, with more than 210,000 lawyers, of whom 89.6 percent were full-time and 4.5 percent part-time. The rest were corporate lawyers, public defenders, legal-assistance lawyers and military lawyers.
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