Published: 15 January 2014
The article examines the legislation concerning the activities of a lawyer in criminal proceedings, which revealed some gaps in the regulation of activities of the defense attorney in a modern criminal process. Attention is focused on such problems of unfair execution of professional duties by the defense attorney as: the psychological impact of the lawyer on the people; not effective activity of the free defender; normalization of relations between the lawyer and the all sides of proceedings and other. Some problems discussed in the article, with minimum research by the scientific community, despite the damage inflicted on the principles of criminal proceedings. Based on the analysis of the causes underlying the problems, the ways to improve the legislation in the regulation of procedural provisions of the defense attorney are suggested, which were reflected in specific changes and additions.