If a lawyer destroys or forges evidence, helps the parties to destroy or forge evidence, and threatens or induces witnesses to change their testimony on facts or commit perjury, defenders and agents ad litem are suspected of destroying or falsifying evidence and obstructing testimony, and will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.
A lawyer shall not commit any of the following acts in his practice:
1. Accepting entrustment, collecting fees, accepting property or other benefits from the client without permission;
2. Take advantage of the convenience of providing legal services to seek the disputed rights and interests of the parties;
3. Accepting property or other benefits from the other party, and maliciously colluding with the other party or a third party to infringe upon the rights and interests of the client;
4. Meeting with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff in violation of regulations;
5. Bribing judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members, introducing bribes or instigating or inducing parties to pay bribes, or influencing judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members to handle cases according to law in other improper ways;
6. Deliberately providing false evidence or threatening or inducing others to provide false evidence, which hinders the other party from obtaining evidence according to law;
7. Inciting or instructing the parties to take illegal means such as disturbing public order and endangering public security to resolve disputes;
8. Disturbing the order of courts and arbitration tribunals and interfering with the normal conduct of litigation and arbitration activities.
Legal basis:
Criminal law of the people's Republic of China
Article 306
In criminal proceedings, defenders and agents ad litem who destroy or falsify evidence, help the parties to destroy or falsify evidence, threaten or induce witnesses to change their testimony of facts or commit perjury shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.
Witness testimony or other evidence provided, presented or quoted by defenders or agents ad litem is inaccurate, not intentionally forged, and does not belong to forged evidence.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law
Article 49
If a lawyer commits one of the following acts, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a city divided into districts or a municipality directly under the Central Government shall impose a penalty of not less than six months but not more than one year, and may also impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke his lawyer's practice certificate; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(a) meeting with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff in violation of regulations, or otherwise affecting the handling of cases according to law;
(2) Offering bribes to judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members, introducing bribes or instigating or inducing parties to pay bribes;
(3) Providing false materials to the judicial administrative department or committing other fraudulent acts;
(4) Deliberately providing false evidence or threatening or inducing others to provide false evidence, which hinders the other party from obtaining evidence according to law;
(5) accepting property or other benefits from the other party, and maliciously colluding with the other party or a third party to infringe upon the rights and interests of the client;
(6) Disrupting the order of courts and arbitration tribunals and interfering with the normal conduct of litigation and arbitration activities;
(seven) inciting or instructing the parties to take illegal means such as disturbing public order and endangering public security to resolve disputes;
(8) making statements that endanger national security, maliciously slander others, and seriously disturb the order of the court;
(9) divulging state secrets.
If a lawyer is subject to criminal punishment for intentional crime, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke his lawyer's practice certificate.