ADJD опубликовала Хартию адвокатуры Абу-Даби

Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has issued its Abu Dhabi Advocacy Charter promoting quality advocacy services and reinforcing relationships with all stakeholders of legal and judicial services in the Emirate. The Charter represents the first code of conduct defining principles of advocacy practicing in Abu Dhabi. More importantly, the Advocacy Charter addresses the relationship between judges and advocates being two components of a single entity. In its approach to the relationship, the Charter has built on Arab, Islamic and international traditions and best practices of the judiciary and advocacy. Distributed into three main parts, the Charter establishes in the first one the general principles of the relationship between the two parties. In the second part it sets the values of judiciary. And in the third part the Charter defines and the principles of advocacy practice. Defining the principles of advocacy, the Charter highlights the values of mutual respect, mutual empowering to do duties, cooperation between the judiciary and advocacy to settle disputes with minimum cost and time, and the use of alternative dispute resolutions whenever they are feasible and allowed by law. The Charter highlights also the importance of the right to self-defence, the protection of the reputation of the judiciary’s mission and advocacy practice, productive communication between the two parties, and the provision of legal aid for applicable cases in line with ADJD’s strategy. The Advocacy Charter promotes the principle of independence of both judiciary and advocacy. It moreover promotes the integration of the judiciary and advocacy within the overall government system of in Abu Dhabi to help ADJD achieve its strategic goals of safeguarding the rule of law by ensuring justice, freedom and peace in society and taking Abu Dhabi to the best among world’s governments.