2007年修订的律师法，对律师参与诉讼特别是刑事诉讼应当享有的权利进行了补充和强化。规定律师在法庭上发表的代理、辩护意见，除危害国家安全、恶意诽谤他人、严重扰乱法庭秩序的言论外，不受法律追究。这些举措促进了律师辩护职能的有效行使。2006—2011年期间，全国律师共为2454222件刑事案件提供了辩护，比2001—2005年期间增长了54.16%。
及时会见在押犯罪嫌疑人、被告人，并查阅案卷材料和调查取证，直接关系到辩护律师在刑事诉讼中辩护职能的发挥。2012年修改的刑事诉讼法规定，除极少数案件外，辩护律师持律师执业证书、律师事务所证明和委托书或者法律援助公函，即可会见在押的犯罪嫌疑人、被告人；辩护律师会见犯罪嫌疑人、被告人时不被监听。辩护律师在审查起诉阶段，即可查阅、摘抄、复制本案案卷材料。辩护人有权申请人民检察院、人民法院调取公安机关、人民检察院收集的证明犯罪嫌疑人、被告人无罪或者罪轻的证据材料。同时规定，辩护人认为公安机关、人民检察院、人民法院及其工作人员阻碍其依法行使诉讼权利的，有权向同级或者上一级人民检察院申诉或者控告。人民检察院对申诉或者控告应当及时进行审查，情况属实的，通知有关机关予以纠正。
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Lawyers, amended in 2007, supplemented and stressed lawyers' rights in the course of litigation, particularly criminal litigation. It stipulates that the representation or defense opinions presented in court by a lawyer shall not be subject to legal prosecution so long as they do not compromise national security, maliciously defame others or seriously disrupt court order. These measures have effectively promoted the exercise of the defense function of lawyers. From 2006 to 2011, lawyers throughout the country provided defense for a total of 2,454,222 cases, an increase of 54.16% over the period 2001-2005.
A timely meeting with a client in custody, access to case materials and obtaining evidence through investigation bear directly on the practice of the defense attorney in criminal litigation. The Criminal Procedure Law amended in 2012 specifies that, except for few cases, a defense attorney who holds a license for practicing law, a certificate of his law firm and a letter of attorney or an official legal assistance letter may meet a detained suspect or defendant. Such a meeting is not to be monitored. Starting from the date of the review by the people's procuratorate, a defense attorney may have access to, extract and copy filed materials concerning the case. A defender may apply to the relevant people's procuratorate or people's court for evidence of the innocence of the defendant or the insignificance of the alleged crime collected by the public security organ or the people's procuratorate. It also specifies that if a defender thinks the public security organ, the people's procuratorate, the people's court or their staff hinders him/her from exercising his/her litigation right, he/she has the right to make a petition/accusation to a people's procuratorate at the same level or at the next higher level. The people's procuratorate must review the petition/accusation in a timely fashion. If the petition/accusation is true, the people's procuratorate will notify the relevant department to make corrections to its acts.
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