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People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of improving the lawyer system, standardizing lawyers' practice behavior, ensuring lawyers to practice according to law and giving full play to lawyers' role in the construction of socialist legal system.
Lawyer Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 2 The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients.
Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.
Article 3 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and strictly abide by their 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. Article 35 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * An entrusted lawyer may, according to the needs of the case, apply to the people's procuratorate or the people's court for collecting and obtaining evidence or to the people's court for notifying witnesses to testify in court. If a lawyer investigates and collects evidence by himself, he may, with the lawyer's practice certificate and the certificate of the law firm, investigate the situation related to undertaking legal affairs with the relevant units or individuals.
Article 38 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), lawyers should keep state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities, and may 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.