Lawyer authentication

Lawyer witnessing: means that the law firm accepts the client's entrustment or application and appoints a lawyer with lawyer qualifications or legal professional qualifications and a lawyer's practicing certificate to provide evidence on behalf of the law firm and the witnessing lawyer. A type of lawyer's non-litigation business activities that is evidenced by careful review of the authenticity and legality of relevant legal acts or legal facts. There are two purposes for a lawyer to witness: 1. To witness the authenticity of a certain legal act or legal fact; 2. To witness the legality of a certain legal act or legal fact. From the perspective of legal attributes, lawyer's testimony in our country is still a "private testimony" and must be verified to be true according to law before it can be used as a basis for determining facts. Unlike the probative power of notarization, notarization can generally be used directly as evidence. Lawyer testimony should be a unified examination of formality and substantive examination. Witnessing should adhere to the following principles: First, the lawyer's witnessing should first strictly review and verify the subject qualifications of the party; Secondly, the lawyer should be diligent and responsible and carefully review the legality of the matters witnessed; Thirdly, the lawyer's witnessing should also strictly review and verify the witnessing The authenticity of the matter; Fourth, legal documents witnessed by lawyers must comply with statutory substantive requirements; they must also comply with statutory formal requirements; Fifth, lawyer witnessing should adhere to the principle of avoidance, and it is not appropriate to testify for one's relatives and friends as a lawyer ; Sixth, lawyer witnessing should adhere to the principles of voluntariness, fairness, directness and objectivity; Seventh, lawyers are not allowed to witness statutory compulsory notarization matters; Eighth, lawyer witnessing business procedures must be complete, and the content of the witnessing certificate must meet the requirements. This information comes from Shanghai list network. More Shanghai study abroad/immigration/visa information is available on the list website.