Xinhua News, 2009-06-05
In a recent interview, two criminal defense lawyers, Liu Hai and Yi Shenghua, with the Yingke Beijing law firm, spoke about the 2008-amended Law on Lawyers from the angle of lawyers' professional safeguards. Liu affirmed the progress the law had made in guaranteeing lawyers' right to meet with clients and access case files, although he admitted that those rights “still come under some restrictions.” Yi added that “in some areas” “some judicial organs” have consciously failed to implement the law, pointing to its contradictions with parts of the Criminal Procedure Law and even arguing that the Law on Lawyers is just for you lawyers and does not concern them. To solve those problems they urged amending the Criminal Procedure Law and, more importantly, passing implementing rules and regulations that clearly protect lawyers' professional rights and strictly punish any and all infringements of those rights.
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