A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assigned to provide legal services for the parties. Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.
Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and abide by lawyers' professional ethics and practice discipline. Lawyers' practice must be based on facts and take the law as the criterion. Lawyers' practice should be supervised by the state, society and the parties concerned.
Lawyers' legal practice is protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers. Lawyers should keep state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities, and may not disclose the privacy of the parties. Lawyers should keep confidential the relevant information and materials that their clients and others are unwilling to disclose in their practice activities. However, criminal facts and information that endanger national security, public safety and seriously endanger the personal safety of others are being prepared or implemented by the client or others. So generally speaking, lawyers have no right to locate other citizens.
Article 30 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), when a lawyer acts as an agent for litigation legal affairs or an agent for non-litigation legal affairs, he shall safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the client within the scope of authorization. When acting as a defender, a lawyer shall, according to facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions on whether the criminal suspect or defendant is innocent, the crime is light or the criminal responsibility is reduced or exempted, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of the criminal suspect or defendant. The client may refuse his entrusted lawyer to continue to defend or represent him, and at the same time, he may entrust another lawyer to act as a defender or agent. After accepting the entrustment, a lawyer shall not refuse to defend or represent without justifiable reasons. However, if the entrusted matter is illegal, the client uses the services provided by the lawyer to engage in illegal activities, or the client deliberately conceals important facts related to the case, the lawyer has the right to refuse to defend or represent him.