Keyword: «moral principles»

The article considers the main issues of professional ethics, submitted by the modern state of law to representatives of legal professions. It analyses problems of formation of an effective system of multi-stage control, which plays the role of social (public) supervision over the level of formation of moral consciousness, as well as the significance of civil position among representatives of legal professions. The author considers conscience and justice as qualities that form the «core» of basic personal qualities of representatives of legal professions (investigators, prosecutors, judges, lawyers, internal affairs officers, state security officers, legal advisers, notaries, customs officers).

In the modern world there are higher requirements to the professional ethics of a lawyer. They influence the formation of a highly moral professional legal consciousness of a lawyer-professional, guided in professional activities by the norms of morality, professional ethics and official etiquette. The article presents the main requirements related to the meaning of professional ethics, imposed on all representatives of legal professions in modern Russian society.