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МОРАЛЬНО-ЭТИЧЕСКИЙ ПРОСТУПОК КАК ОСНОВАНИЕ ЮРИДИЧЕСКОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ ЮРИСТА-ПРАКТИКА
MORAL AND ETHICAL MISCONDUCT AS A BASIS OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS

Author(s): R.G. Valiev
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: legal regulation; code of legal ethics; moral and ethical misconduct; legal responsibility;

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the study of the norms of professional codes of legal ethics, the article reveals the legal nature of a moral and ethical misconduct and its equivalence to an offence, which allows qualifying it to be the basis for legal responsibility of legal practitioners. The work gives a critical assessment of the structural features of the norms of certain professional codes of legal ethics (Code of Judicial Ethics) characterized by ambiguity and purely discretionary nature of legal qualification of behavior as a moral and ethical misconduct.

  • Issue Year: 155/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 10-20
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian
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