Caijing Online, 2009-06-01
The Shanghai Procuratorate issued provisional regulations governing the interactions of procuratorate officials with lawyers involved in ongoing cases. In addition to proscribing a long list of acts prosecutors themselves may not engage in—from revealing internal procuracy information to borrowing lawyers' communication devices—prosecutors immediate relatives are also banned from a host of activities involving plaintiffs and their lawyers. Prominent lawyers and legal scholars do not, however, believe the new regulations will effectively combat prosecutorial abuse and corruption, both of which they identify as rooted in problems of professional self-discipline in the current criminal justice system.
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