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Difendere diritti, a quale costo?
1. BARI, 22 SETTEMBRE 2020
NICOLA CANESTRINI
DIFENDERE DIRITTI.
A QUALE COSTO?
2. "Endangered Lawyer” Project, UCPI, Italy
PERCH? ?AVVOCATI MINACCIATI??
OGGI COME IERI AVVOCATI VENGONO
PERSEGUITATI IN TUTTO IL MONDO A
CAUSA DELL’ESERCIZIO DELLA LORO
FUNZIONE DIFENSIVA.
LE PERSECUZIONI SONO IN AUMENTO.
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“.. AIMED AT SILENCING AND
PUNISHING HIM FOR HIS
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVITIES ..”
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“CENTRAL POSITION (OF LAWYERS) IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE
THEY MAY PLAY IN THE PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS”
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"I have to state as a fact, but with great
regret, that there are in Northern Ireland a
number of solicitors who are unduly
sympathetic to the cause of the IRA.”
Douglas Hogg
junior Home Office minister
17 January, 1989
Pat Finucane, criminal
lawyer, killed
12 February, 1989
25. 16. Governments shall ensure that
lawyers are able to perform all of their
professional functions without
intimidation, hindrance, harassment or
improper interference;
shall not suffer, or be threatened with,
prosecution or administrative, economic
or other sanctions for any action taken in
accordance with recognized professional
duties, standards and ethics.
Principi di Base sul
Ruolo degli Avvocati
adottato dalle
Nazioni Unite nel 1990
Guarantees for the
functioning of lawyers
26. “Lawyers shall not be identified
with their clients or their
clients' causes as a result of
discharging their functions”
27. ”Il rispetto della funzione professionale
dell’Avvocato è una condizione essenziale
dello Stato di diritto e di una società
democratica”
(CCBE’s Code of Conduct for European Lawyers, article 1.1)