Today, (that is, October 20, 2021), a major event occurred in China's judicial circles that can be said to be shocking: that is, a message released by the China Lawyers Network: the rules of the All-China Lawyers Association on prohibiting illegal speculation of cases (trial implementation) were deliberated and approved at the second (expanded) meeting of the Standing Council of the 10th National Lawyers Association on October 15, 2021.
We have to admit that in the past judicial circles, some lawyers did influence judges on the trial of some major cases to a greater or lesser extent, rightly or wrongly, through the power of the media. As a result, some litigants also have a greater sense of trust in lawyers who have hype channels and ideas.
With the emergence of self-media, lawyers' illegal speculation on representing cases and serious interference with judges' bad behavior in handling cases according to law have become increasingly rampant. Some lawyers will register a lot of self-media, while some law firms even set up a special media department, as long as they take over the case, often the first step will be to write "news" only based on the unilateral materials of the parties, and then create so-called public opinion through various media, and often have no form of judges to try according to law and make legal judgments.
There are 13 articles in total, of which 10 clearly stipulate the rules of conduct after lawyers represent cases, and make it clear that lawyers and their law firms should perform their duties in accordance with laws and regulations, and must not create public opinion pressure by means of joint signatures, publishing open letters, organizing online gatherings, solidarity, etc., or in the name of case discussions, affecting the case to be handled in accordance with the law, media, self-media and other platforms to carry out distorted and misleading publicity and comments on the case, and to hype up misleading, false, speculative and other means by means of forwarding and commenting.
Article 11 of the Rules states: Where lawyers or law firms violate the provisions of these Rules, the lawyers association shall notify the lawyers and law firms to make corrections within a time limit, and give corresponding disciplinary sanctions in accordance with industry norms such as the Code of Conduct for Lawyers' Practice and the Rules for the Punishment of Violations by Lawyers Association Members (for Trial Implementation).
What do you think about the introduction of this rule? Anyway, I applauded.
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