In the absence of a self-regulatory body, legal advisors are not bound by binding rules of professional ethics and are not subject to disciplinary responsibility.
[6] They are also not bound by professional secrecy or permitted to refuse to testify to facts of which they become aware in the course of providing their legal services.
[8] Since 1992 plaintiff had been carrying on business within the scope defined in the entry in the Business Activity Register as legal counselling (excluding legal services dedicated to attorneys-at-law and advocates), accepting powers of attorney, drafting documents, conducting commissioned cases, and representing clients in front of various public authorities.
By a ruling of the collegium of misdemeanours in 1999, the applicant was fined and found guilty of providing legal counselling without the required admission to practice law.
In its decision of 12 November 2001 (IV KKN 145/00), the Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal against the above judgment as unfounded.