It refers to the basic moral norms that people's lawyers engaged in socialist legal work should follow in criminal defense, civil agency, legal solution and other activities. People's lawyers are national legal workers, whose task is to provide legal aid to state organs, enterprises, institutions, social organizations, collective economic organizations and individual citizens, safeguard the correct implementation of laws, and safeguard the interests of the state and the collective as well as the legitimate rights and interests of citizens. The nature, task and characteristics of people's lawyers' work determine that the main contents of their moral norms are: (1) Love the socialist motherland and the party, and all words and deeds are based on safeguarding the legal dignity of socialist countries and the legitimate rights of the people; (2) Seriously study, profoundly understand and master the laws and decrees of the state, put the interests of the party and the people first, enforce the law impartially, handle affairs impartially, and faithfully perform their duties; (3) Proceed from reality, be loyal to objective facts, adhere to the principle of "taking facts as the basis and taking law as the criterion" to defend in court, and be responsible for the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the socialist legal system; (4) In the process of handling the case, be fair and comfortable, be brave in speaking out, argue with reason, and not be swayed by considerations of gain and loss; (5) Dignified and polite, sincere and humble. As the defender of the socialist legal system and the legitimate spokesman of the people, the professional ethics of people's lawyers is directly related to whether the socialist legal system can be implemented correctly, whether the legitimate rights of the people can be protected, and whether the bad guys can be punished in time by law. Therefore, it is directly related to the prestige of the party and the country in the eyes of the people. People's lawyers should consciously abide by professional ethics and make themselves legal workers with "fair law enforcement and high moral character".
Specific legal provisions are as follows:
Chapter II Basic Principles of Lawyers' Professional Ethics
Article 4 Lawyers should be loyal to the Constitution and laws, adhere to the principle of taking facts as the basis, take the law as the criterion, and practice in strict accordance with the law.
Lawyers should be loyal to their duties, adhere to principles and safeguard national laws and social justice.
Article 5 Lawyers shall be honest and trustworthy, diligent and conscientious, and faithfully safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of clients.
Article 6 Lawyers should be dedicated and diligent, study their business hard, master the legal knowledge and service skills they should have in practice, and constantly improve their practice level.
Article 7 Lawyers should cherish and safeguard their professional reputation, observe social morality by example, and pay attention to the construction of conduct and professional ethics.
Article 8 Lawyers shall strictly keep state secrets, business secrets of clients and privacy of clients.
Article 9 Lawyers should respect their peers, help each other, compete fairly and improve their professional level.
Article 10 Lawyers shall consciously perform their legal aid obligations and provide legal aid to the recipients.
Article 11 Lawyers shall abide by the articles of association of the Lawyers Association and earnestly perform their membership obligations.
Twelfth lawyers should actively participate in social welfare activities.