Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Reza Rashidi ¹
• Zahra Rahimi ²

¹ Master of Laws, Human Rights, Mofid University of Qom, Qom, Iran

² Ph.D. Student in Law, Private Orientation, Islamic Azad University, Research Sciences Unit, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

The most important principles of a fair trial are the right to defense and the right to choose a lawyer, and one of the basic guarantees in order to realize the defendant's right to defense and apply the principle of equality of arms between the parties to the lawsuit is the defendant's benefit from a defense lawyer during the preliminary investigation and trial stages. The presence of a lawyer has been considered in all the past periods. Accordingly, in Article 35 of the Constitution, this matter has also been taken into consideration by the legislator. considered it subject to the prescription of the court, but the lawmaker in the Criminal Procedure Law of 2012 clearly stated the right to have a lawyer in all stages of the proceedings. The company of a defense lawyer is accepted in all the stages of the proceedings in the regulations of most countries of the world, and this right has undergone many changes in the laws before and after the revolution in our country. The criminal procedure approved in 1392 has been analyzed and evaluated with a comparative comparison with the French criminal law in different stages of the trial, including the stage under observation, the prosecutor's office and the court, and in other parts of the research, the position of the lawyer in human rights documents has also been examined from the point of view of critical criminology. And finally, the important innovations in the field of lawyer's intervention, which the legislator predicted for the first time in the said law, have been addressed; And at the end of this research, the Criminal Procedure Law of 1392, with all its problems and shortcomings, was much more progressive than the previous laws and better respected the defense rights of the litigants. Involving the lawyer in all crimes and predicting immunity for the lawyer during the defense process. This research, with the help of descriptive method, explains and analyzes the provisions and developments of Iran's criminal procedure law with the perspective of French law

Keywords

• Right to have an attorney
• Trial stages
• France right
• Instruments of human rights
• Criminal procedure code

Main Subjects

• Private Law

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