Lawyers should keep state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities, and may not disclose the privacy of the parties. However, every lawyer's professional ethics are also high and low, and it is not excluded that a very small number of lawyers ignore professional ethics and legal provisions.
Lawyers are bound by practice discipline and professional ethics. If a lawyer is found to have betrayed his own interests, he will be punished by stopping practicing. According to the relevant laws and regulations of our country, lawyers should keep the state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities and must not disclose the privacy of their clients. 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.
The ways to prevent lawyers from betraying their clients are as follows:
1, the parties and the entrusted lawyer should sign a standard contract, make a special agreement on the special matters of the parties, and clarify the responsibilities that the lawyer should bear and the liability for breach of contract;
2. Once the lawyer is found to have betrayed the client's breach of contract, he should immediately point out to the lawyer and ask him to stop the breach of contract and bear the liability for breach of contract;
3. You can report the damage caused by the lawyer's breach of contract to the competent lawyer department of the local judicial bureau or the relevant lawyers' association;
4. When appropriate, you can bring a lawsuit to the court according to the entrustment contract, claiming that the lawyer should bear the liability for breach of contract.
To sum up, lawyers should keep state secrets, business secrets and the privacy of the parties they know in their practice activities, and must not disclose them. But it does not rule out that a very small number of lawyers ignore professional ethics and legal provisions. Therefore, although lawyers should not betray their clients, this possibility cannot be completely ruled out. The role ethics of lawyers requires that lawyers should never betray the interests of their clients and keep secrets for their clients. Therefore, if a lawyer violates professional ethics and legal provisions and betrays his client, he will face the cost of discrediting and legal responsibility. In short, it is rare for lawyers to betray their clients, but it cannot be completely ruled out. Therefore, the choice of lawyers needs to be based on the trust and confidence in lawyers' professional ethics.
Legal basis:
Article 48 of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law.
If a lawyer commits one of the following acts, the judicial administrative department of the people's government at the municipal level or municipality directly under the Central Government shall give him a warning and may impose a fine of not more than 10,000 yuan; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, the punishment of stopping practicing for more than three months and less than six months shall be given:
(1) Accepting entrustment, charging fees, accepting property or other benefits from customers without permission;
(two) after accepting the entrustment, refusing to defend or represent without justifiable reasons, and not appearing in court on time to participate in litigation or arbitration;
(three) to seek the disputed rights and interests of the parties by taking advantage of the convenience of providing legal services;
(4) divulging business secrets or personal privacy.