Integritas Advokat Dalam Peradilan (Perspektif Hak Asasi Manusia)

Abstract

According to Teaching Human Rights published by the United Nations that human rights are the inherent rights of every human being without which it is impossible for humans to live as human beings. To create a sense of justice in protecting human rights, it is necessary to provide legal assistance (advocacy) for victims. An advocate is a yurist, a jurist from a legal scholar. So, although an expert on law but not a law scholar, then he can not be said as an advocate, but can only be said as a lawyer, it is because that the lawyer can not be from a law scholar, but he is an expert in law. The research specification used in this dissertation is descriptive research specification. There are several things that have not been carried out by advocates in fact, namely in counseling services and legal information to deceive the public about the knowledge and understanding of applicable laws or legislation.

Keywords : Advocate, Human Rights, Law