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Pretending to be a lawyer may be subject to criminal punishment and public security administration punishment.
1, which may be suspected of fraud. According to Article 266 of China's Criminal Law, the crime of fraud refers to the act of defrauding a large amount of public and private property subjectively for the purpose of illegal possession and objectively by means of fictional facts or concealing the truth.
According to the provisions of the Criminal Law and the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in the Trial of Fraud Cases, individuals who defraud public or private property of more than 2,000 yuan but less than 30,000 yuan are "relatively large" and should be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined.
2. According to Article 46 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if a person impersonates a lawyer to engage in legal services, the public security organ shall order him to stop his illegal practice, confiscate his illegal income, and may impose a fine of not more than 5,000 yuan and detention of not more than 15 days.
As far as the qualifications of "lawyer" are concerned, they include: first, they have certain legal knowledge, and according to the provisions of the current Lawyers Law, they have legal knowledge of "bachelor degree or above in law major in colleges and universities" or "bachelor degree or above in other majors in colleges and universities"; The second is to pass the national "legal professional qualification examination" and obtain qualifications; The third is to obtain a practicing certificate with the approval of the national 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 national legal professional qualification examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted 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 features, the first one or two are owned 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.