When is the National Lawyers' Consultation Day in 2020: Wednesday, August 26th, 2020, the eighth day of the seventh lunar month.
According to the Provisional Regulations on Lawyers in People's Republic of China (PRC) (promulgated by 1980), all china lawyers association was established in July 1986. Is a social group legal person, is a national lawyer industry self-discipline organization, according to the law to implement professional management of lawyers. After the founding of all china lawyers association, the special day passed by the Provisional Regulations on Lawyers in People's Republic of China (PRC) was designated as the National Lawyers Consultation Day.
Purpose of National Lawyers' Consultation Day
Unite and educate members to safeguard the dignity of the Constitution and laws, be loyal to the cause of lawyers, and abide by the professional ethics and practice discipline of lawyers; Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of members; Improve the professional quality of members; Strengthen professional self-discipline, promote the healthy development of lawyers, and work hard to govern the country according to law, build a socialist country ruled by law, and promote social civilization and progress.
What is a lawyer?
A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or designated to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties.
Lawyers can only practice after passing the legal professional qualification examination and obtaining the lawyer's practice certificate according to law. Lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers according to the nature of their work, civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers according to their business scope, social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers according to their clients and work status. Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.
The essence of lawyers
As far as the qualifications of lawyers are concerned, they include: first, they have certain legal knowledge, and according to the provisions of the current Lawyers Law, they have a bachelor's degree or above in law major in colleges and universities or a bachelor's degree or above in other majors in colleges and universities; The second is to pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain qualifications; The third is to obtain a practice certificate with the approval of the judicial administrative department; Fourth, provide legal services to the society and take it as a profession.
Therefore, a lawyer refers to a practitioner who has passed the legal professional qualification examination, obtained the lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted the entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to the parties. The nature of a lawyer is to provide legal services for the society, and he is a professional legal service worker.
Among the above four basic characteristics, the first one or two are possessed by other legal workers, such as law enforcement workers, judicial trial workers (judges) and judicial procuratorial workers (prosecutors); The latter two items are unique to lawyers.