The Disciplinary Liability of Lithuanian Lawyers: a Comparative Approach

• Authors: Edita Gruodytė
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article presents basic findings about courts of honor in Lithuania. The data about disciplinary violations in five legal professions-judges, lawyers, prosecutors, notaries, and bailiffs-was obtained while implementing a scientific project on certain issues of legal ethics. The article provides data on the following issues: subjects initiating disciplinary cases; the number of cases for each legal profession; decisions taken in cases of disciplinary violations; categories of disciplinary violations; sanctions provided. The article is intended to initiate further discussion about these matters among scientists, practitioners, and the general public, not just in Lithuania but in other countries as well.

Keywords

EN

Disciplinary liability; legal ethics; judges; attorneys; prosecutors; notaries; bailiffs

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-36

Dates

published

2014-12-01

received

2014-10-03

accepted

2014-12-23

online

2015-03-11

Contributors

author

Edita Gruodytė

• Professor Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Law (Lithuania)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bjlp-2015-0001