Self-regulation of the Legal Profession

     Lawyers should strictly abide by ethical norms in their practice. Meanwhile, it is imperative for lawyers’groups to create a healthy system to establish lawyers’autonomy and self-discipline.

     To deal with cases in which the members of TBA were reported for contravening lawyers’ethics and discipline, the TBA has enacted the “rticles of Association of the Ethics & Discipline Committee of TBA”and “rocedures for Handling Cases Against Ethics & Discipline by Members of TBA.”Commissioners of the Ethics & Discipline Committee are drawn from among the TBA directors and supervisors, and, when necessary, from the general membership. As soon as the TBA receives a complaint or report regarding a member violation of ethics or discipline, an investigative team consisting of three commissioners conducts an investigation and presents a report within four months to the Board for resolution by a two-thirds vote of those present. For cases involving non-TBA members who may have incurred criminal liability under the Law of Lawyers, the Committee may also take action according to the same procedures. In all, the TBA had dealt with total more than 250 ethics and discipline cases up to the end of 2001.