Peculiarities of Investigative Proceedings against Lawyers

The paper deals with the peculiarities of investigative proceedings against lawyers that are regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The author proposed to consider all actions that restrict the rights of a lawyer directly in the course of an investigative action, and not as a result of an investigative action, as investigative actions carried out «in relation to lawyers». At the same time, these actions can be carried out with the direct participation of a lawyer, as well as without him. The main purpose of the legislative establishment of the peculiarities of the production of investigative actions is to create a system of guarantees against attorney-client privilege violation, to prevent the use of information provided by the defendant to the lawyer in the framework of special trust relationships that develop in the provision of legal assistance in proving. The peculiarities provided for by law do not apply to investigative actions performed in connection with the commission of a criminal act by a lawyer. The paper scrutinizes the content of the features of conducting investigative actions: the range of actions, the production of which requires judicial permission, is determined; the rights of such a participant in an investigative action as an authorized representative of the bar association are disclosed; the concept of a lawyer’s dossier (lawyer’s proceedings) is detailed; the procedure for seizing the documents included in it is investigated.

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