People's governments at all levels shall commend and reward lawyers who have made remarkable achievements in performing their duties. Article 3 In performing their duties, lawyers must be based on facts, take the law as the criterion, abide by lawyers' discipline and professional ethics, and must not abuse power for personal gain, accept bribes or forge evidence.
Lawyers must strictly keep confidential the state secrets and personal privacy they come into contact with in the course of performing their duties. Article 4 The working organization for lawyers to perform their duties is a law firm (legal advisory office, the same below), which is subject to the leadership and supervision of the local judicial administrative organs. The establishment of a law firm must be approved by the provincial judicial administrative organ. Article 5 A lawyer must be arranged by his law firm in a unified way, and may not accept the entrustment of the client or collect remuneration privately, or accept the entrustment of the other party in the same case, or refuse to act as the defender designated by the people's court without justifiable reasons.
When a lawyer acts as a defender or agent ad litem, if his request violates the laws of the state or fails to truthfully state the case, the parties have the right to refuse to defend him or resign.
The parties may refuse the lawyer to continue to defend them or terminate the agency. Article 6 All organs, organizations, enterprises, institutions and citizens shall support the work of lawyers. Lawyers can consult and extract case materials in the people's court with the letter of introduction from the law firm and the lawyer's work permit; Or for the relevant organs, organizations, enterprises, institutions and individuals, the relevant units and individuals have the responsibility to give support and issue necessary certificates, unless otherwise provided by law. Article 7 A defense lawyer may meet and correspond with the defendant in custody, and the detention organ shall provide convenience and meeting place according to regulations, and shall not ask the defendant what he talked with the lawyer. Lawyers shall abide by the relevant regulations of the detention center when meeting.
Letters between the lawyer in custody and the defendant shall be handed over by the detention organ in time. Article 8 The notice of the people's court informing lawyers to perform their duties in court shall be served three days before the court session, and lawyers shall perform their duties in court on time. If a lawyer can't appear in court on time due to the complexity of the case or other special circumstances, he may apply to the people's court for an extension of the trial 1 day before the court session. If it does not affect the legal closing time, the people's court shall consider it. Article 9 A lawyer shall be fully prepared to appear in court to perform his duties, and shall abide by court rules and litigation procedures. With the permission of the presiding judge, lawyers may directly ask questions to witnesses, experts, inspectors or defendants in criminal proceedings during court investigation. Article 10 During the trial, the judge shall respect and guarantee the lawyer's right to appear in court to perform his duties according to law, listen carefully to the lawyer's defense and agency opinions, and shall not ask the lawyer's name and address, or order the lawyer to leave the court without authorization. Article 11 Written evidence, pleadings and proxy statements submitted by lawyers to the people's court shall be included in the case file. If the people's court decides not to hold a trial of a case of second instance, it shall notify the entrusted lawyer to submit the defense or proxy statement on time.
The people's court shall send the written judgment, ruling, indictment, protest and copies of the people's procuratorate to the attorney. Article 12 If a lawyer thinks that the legally effective judgment or ruling of the case he undertakes is significantly different from the facts, inaccurate in qualitative determination, improper in application of the law or in violation of legal procedures, he may submit written opinions to the people's court or the people's procuratorate through a law firm. The people's courts and people's procuratorates shall deal with it seriously and responsibly.
If the parties have no opinions on the judgment or ruling made according to law, or if the parties reach a mediation agreement according to law, the lawyer shall respect the wishes of the parties. Thirteenth to interfere with the lawyer to perform their duties according to law, making things difficult, insulting, cracking down on or persecuting lawyers, the competent unit shall criticize and educate them or give them administrative sanctions; Those who violate the criminal law shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. Fourteenth lawyers in violation of the "Provisional Regulations on Lawyers in People's Republic of China (PRC)" and these Provisions, the judicial administrative organ shall criticize and educate them or give them a warning, suspend their duties or cancel their qualifications as lawyers. Those who violate the criminal law shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. Article 15 These Provisions shall come into force on June 1 987+1October1day.