PROSPECTS OF ADAPTATION OF UKRAINIAN LEGISLATION ON ADVOCACY TO EUROPEAN STANDARDS

The article examines the current domestic legislation on advocacy and advocacy, establishes the level of its compliance with European and international standards. The Constitution of Ukraine declares the desire of our people to build a democratic, social, legal state. However, achieving this goal is impossible without a qualitative reform of the legal system of the country, which, unfortunately, still retains the echoes of Soviet law. Especially important is creating and functioning of the system of bodies capable of ensuring human rights, freedoms and legitimate interests by providing highly qualified legal assistance. In modern civilized democracies, a necessary factor in the system of legal protection of a person, the rights and freedoms is the advocacy. It represents a specialized institute for this humane mission. Given the European integration sentiments of our state, further reform of the legal profession in Ukraine should take into account the positive world and European experience. Adaptation of the current domestic legislation to the EU legislation, including in the field of advocacy, is one of the priority areas of the state, which determines the relevance of the research topic. Based on the study of the Strategy for the Reform of the Judiciary, Judiciary and Related Legal Institutions for 2015–2020, as the main program document for the reform of the avocacy in Ukraine, steps have been taken to implement it. Further prospects for the development of the bar in Ukraine in accordance with the European integration direction of the country are proposed.