The concept and general provisions of the legal status of the lawyer in the modern criminal proceedings

One of the important means of protection of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of man is rendering qualified legal assistance to him by people, designed to provide such assistance on a professional basis. Guarantee the right to qualified legal assistance is the institution of the legal profession is professional community of lawyers, acting on the basis of principles of legality, independence, self-government, corporatism and equality of its members. Lawyer activity is the qualified legal aid rendered on a professional basis by lawyers with persons in the prescribed manner the status of a lawyer and the right to practice law.