CRI英语听力2012年11月合辑（文本＋翻译）：LAWYERS-RIGHTS-GUARANTEED-IN-CHINAS-JUDICIAL-REFORM.doc

1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家In recent years, China has provided a new legal guarantee for criminal defense lawyers to practice in courts and reduce barriers to evidence collection as a response to problems they have encountered in the past.CRIs Shen Ting tells us what China is doing to make lawyers jobs easier:

2、Zhang Zhiwei works at Beijing Bairui Law Firm. He has been engaged in criminal proceedings for more than 10 years.Zhang says criminal defense lawyers in the past used to complain about sometimes being denied the right to meet with suspects accused of crimes.Lawyers had limited rights in defense when

3、 cases were already in the investigation or trial stage, and they often got involved in the cases after the procurators had indicted the suspects. But by then, it was too late for the lawyers to collect evidence.Following the passage of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Law earlier this year, Zha

4、ng found that the situation had changed for the better.Lawyers could provide legal advice to suspects during the investigation stage. Meanwhile, starting from the date of the review by the peoples procuratorate, a defense attorney could inquire about the charges against the suspects and have access

5、to, extract and copy filed materials concerning the case.Earlier this year, Zhang agreed to represent some of the suspects in an illegal fund-raising case involving millions of yuan and hundreds of people in north Chinas Hebei Province. He said the terms of the new amendment to the Criminal Procedur

6、e Law made it much easier for him to handle such a case.Because I hold a valid attorneys license and certificate from my law firm, I met with the suspects about 10 times during the entire trial. And whenever we met, all the conversations were unmonitored. Meanwhile, judges from the court also helped

7、 me obtain and copy the case files.The current law stipulates that lawyers for the prosecution or defense will not be subject to prosecution for the opinions they express in court as long as their opinions do not compromise national security, maliciously defame others or seriously disrupt court orde

8、r.Zhang says timely meetings with clients in police custody, access to case materials and the ease of obtaining evidence through investigations have a direct bearing on how defense attorneys do their jobs in criminal litigation. He says the new measures have effectively promoted the exercise of the

9、defense function of lawyers.Tong Lihua, one of the three lawyer delegates to this weeks 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, says the public should be aware of the function of lawyers.Lawyers are a group whose profession is to give legal advice and assistance to clients in modern

10、legal society. Lawyers should not only protect clients rights, but also protect the rights of the national legal system.Tong says he hopes lawyers rights can be further guaranteed by the state in the future.Lawyers legal rights to practice and defend clients should be safeguarded. To guarantee the l

11、egal practice of lawyers and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests is to defend the justice system.Chinas judicial bodies have been taking effective measures in accordance with the law in an attempt to materialize efforts in human rights protection in the sphere of criminal justice.For CRI, I am Shen Ting. 版权所有高考资源网