The material was published on the website of the Judicial Law Gazette

The abolition of the lawyer’s monopoly is the state’s failure to fulfill its obligation to a person to provide quality legal aid.

Let us pay attention to litigation concerning the rights of individuals, when state bodies or local self-government bodies participate as third parties or are defendants in cases with individuals. To date, such participation is formal, in most cases no one even appears in court, although issues related to the rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine are resolved: the right to own or use property, the right to social security, pensions, rights, rights related to parenthood, etc. Representatives of state bodies are not independent, and their position is always the same: to defend the interests of the body they represent. Even if there are no legal grounds at all or no evidence in favor of this body, the lawyer will never go to the head and tell him that the case is clearly losing and will go to court or write a letter of resignation, receiving for it his salary, that is, in fact, we return to budget savings.

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