The legal profession is crucial to ensuring the rule of law and an adequate functioning of the justice system. An independent and qualified practice of the legal profession is therefore essential to a fair application of the law and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The latter was acknowledged by the United Nations in the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers adopted in Havana in 1990 and today, 30 years later, the United Nations still alerts about the erosion of the rule of law worldwide.
