LAW ON LEGAL STATUS OF LAWYERS Purpose of this law is to set forth the legal grounds for legal status of lawyers, licenses for participating on professional activities, professional reputation and accountability system, and directions and organization of professional self-governing institution for lawyers. According to this law, it is established the Lawyers association /BAR association/, self-governing professional institution, and every lawyer who passed the professional exam, regardless of his or her position shall be a member of this association. Lawyers Association has a power to organize lawyer’s examination, issue the license for professional activities, continuous training on professional activities and approve rules on lawyers activities, jointly accredits law school with the central government organization, make a conclusions on candidates who nominated for judge position and impose a liability to advocate, judges, prosecutors who conducted malpractice. Concepts of this law is transferring some government functions to Professional self-governing institution will decentralize the government and improve the professional quality. LAW ON MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION The purpose of this law shall be to determine a legal basis for settling the legal disputes through non-judicial methods with a support from the mediators and to regulate the relations concerning the implementation of mediation and conciliation. Therefor mediation and conciliation shall be applied to the cases related to the commercial and other economic activities, civil law disputes, individual labor disputes and family relations. Court based mediation and conciliation is one component of judiciary. General Judicial Council shall be responsible for organizing this activity, and related costs shall be included in the court budget. The General Judicial Council shall established the Council of Mediators on part-time basis with functions of organizing a task for selection of mediators, certification, preparation and retraining. Source: Law on Legal status of Lawyers and Law on Mediation and Conciliation
