IMMUNITY OF THE LAWYER

Abstract

In this article, the author, from modern legal positions, considers the main stages in the development of the institution of immunity (immunity) of a lawyer in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In particular, the types, meaning and essence of the lawyer's immunity, the mechanism of its provision in the procedural sense are considered. In the course of preparing the scientific work, some problematic issues of the operation of immunity were comprehensively studied, including the difficulties in practice of defending by lawyers their rights to witness immunity, inviolability of documents, office, etc. The author noted that there is a whole category of officials enjoying immunity, including judges and prosecutors, meanwhile, a lawyer, despite the legislative grounds for classifying this category of persons, is not included in the Code of Criminal Procedure. Also, problems of maintaining immunity associated with the conduct of operational-search and other measures against lawyers were noted. Based on the results of the analysis, the author presents theoretical conclusions and conclusions.