Almanac of law. Issue 16 (2025), pages 371–376.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2025-16-371-376

Boiko M. M.
Law enforcement activities of the advocacy self-government bodies: concepts and features

The article examines the law enforcement activities of the advocacy self-government bodies as an independent type of non-judicial law enforcement. The author reveals the essence and content of the law enforcement activities of the advocacy self-government, relying on the work of domestic and foreign researchers in the field of legal theory and advocacy.

The author proposes a definition of the law enforcement activities of the advocacy self-government bodies as extrajudicial active legal activities of disciplinary bodies of the bar institute, carried out in a procedural form determined by law, namely: disciplinary proceedings for the consideration of complaints about the commission of a disciplinary offense by a lawyer, applications by lawyers for the suspension or termination of legal activity, as a result of which an individual decision is made regarding the lawyer.

Particular attention is paid to the functioning of the qualification and disciplinary bodies of the Ukrainian bar, which exercise law enforcement powers by considering complaints against lawyers, suspending or terminating the right to practice law, and adopting binding individual decisions.

The study identifies the characteristics of the law enforcement activities of the bodies of the advocacy selfgovernment: the presence of specially authorized entities that carry out disciplinary supervision — disciplinary commissions, disciplinary courts, boards, chambers; public-law nature; procedural form; active nature; the result is an individual decision of the disciplinary body of the advocacy self-government.

A definition of the concept of a law enforcement act of a body of the advocacy self-government is proposed, namely: an individual written decision of a disciplinary body of the advocacy self-government, containing an introductory, motivational and resolutive part, adopted based on the results of consideration of applications and complaints within the framework of disciplinary proceedings, which entails legal consequences, is mandatory and can be appealed to the court.

Key words: advocacy self-government bodies, law enforcement activity, disciplinary proceedings, procedural form, public-legal status, self-government.

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