Ilyichev, V.A. Improvement of the legislative basis of advocacy – call of our time.

Abstract: This article by V.A. Ilyichev is devoted to the problem of the need for the more precise legislative regulation of a number of issues on advocates’ practice. In particular, as the author notes, it is not acceptable to allow persons, who have previous convictions, to become advocates, and the provision prohibiting the advocates to accept and implement illegal requests of their clients needs clarification. Another issue in need of more detailed regulation is advocates’ ethics…