👉The table of contents so far is here.
Chapter 8: Overview of Legal Profession Law
8.4. Public legal profession
To clarify the overall structure of the communist legal profession, this section and the next outline the specific domains of legal practice. This section examines the public legal profession as civil servants.
The representative example of legal professionals belonging to this domain is the judicial profession. While the judicial profession generally refers to judges within a court system, under a communist judicial system that fundamentally lacks a court system, it is a collective term for judicial professionals performing specific roles as listed below.
All these judicial positions are appointed by the Commons' Convention of a specific level for a fixed term, following prescribed procedures, from among certified lawyers listed on the judicial candidate roster maintained by the Association of Certified Lawyers. They are not appointed through a bureaucratic system based on individual selection examinations, etc.
○ Equity Commissioner: Arbitrating civic law disputes
○ Truth Commissioner: Uncovering the truth behind antisocial offences
○ Tribune: Defending fundamental human rights and civil liberties
○ Judge Delegate of the Commons' Convention Jurisprudence Committee: Conducting statutory interpretation of laws and regulations
○ Judge Delegate of the Commons' Convention Charter Committee: Conducting statutory interpretation of Commons' Convention Charter
○ Impeachment Court Judge and Prosecutor: Conducting an impeachment trial of public officials and civil servants
Incidentally, notary public, whose role grows in importance in communist society lacking a court system, is public official but are not included among judicial officer who perform judicial functions themselves. Notay public constitute a special case within the public legal profession, operating independent law office.
Furthermore, staff in the Commons' Convention Legislative Support Bureau and legal affairs departments established as internal divisions within and other Commons' Convention-administered agencies are also legal affairs officers appointed from among certified lawyers or assistant certified lawyers, belonging to the public legal profession.
These legal affairs officers are also not included in judicial positions, but their duties must be protected from interference outside their departments due to the principle of independence of the legal profession.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
