Principles of Law as Standards of Professional Legal Activity
Abstract
The professional activity of a lawyer is based on mutually determined and interdependent legal and ethical principles and standards. The degree of their implementation can serve as a measure of the quality of the lawyer’s activities. At the present stage, the problem of the definition and implementation of international legal standards in the domestic legal space is actualized.
The standard is the rules, principles or characteristics, fixed in accordance with the procedure established by law.
International standards are the basis of international cooperation, harmonization of international and national legal systems. International standards in the field of human rights and freedoms are universally acceptable for all states. Their provision is necessary to maintain the proper level of human life and development.
Ukraine continues the process of integrating European legal standards into the national legal system. The general legal principles have become the guideline for the development and formalization of the basic rules and standards of professional legal activity.
International human rights standards are the result of a commonly agreed and internationally agreed position on key social values. Standards in the field of legal activity are the result of the implementation of the general principles of law in the relevant international legal norms. They are rooted in national legislation, in particular in the texts of constitutions and sectoral legislation.
International principles and standards of legal activity were enshrined in sectoral legal acts. In particular, in the laws of Ukraine «On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges», «On Advocacy and Advocacy», «On the Prosecutor’s Office», «On Notary» and others. There is currently no unified approach to the recognition of international and national, general and special principles (principles) of lawyers’ activities. However, the basic principles of separation for different directions of legal activity are: justice, humanism, legality, the rule of law.
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