Lawyer's Political Responsibilities Stressed in Law Firm Party Secretary Training

“特殊堡垒”的特别培训 律师事务所党支书纳入培训体系

Southern Weekend, 2009-06-04

In last month's training sessions held by the Ministry of Justice for the Communist Party secretaries of private law firm's Party cells training, official speakers stressed lawyers' role as “legal workers” whose “professional freedoms have definite limits, especially in mass incident cases and major sensitive cases, where lawyers' grasp of political orientation is extremely important.” Deputy Minister of Justice Zhao Dacheng asserted that “lawyers' foremost political responsibility is to fully implement the Center's “Guaranteeing Stability” policy and maintain social harmony and stability.” Speakers also reportedly criticized lawyers' who aided Tibetans suspected of participating in last year's disturbances, saying the lawyers' “had demonstrated failings in their political consciousness.”